Emergency Writing | Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War

Anna Teekell

ISBN 10: 0810137267 / ISBN 13: 9780810137264

Published by Northwestern University Press, 2018

Emergency Writing | Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War | Anna Teekell | Buch | Cultural Expressions of World War II | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2018 | Northwestern University Press | EAN 9780810137264 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 121911715

Synopsis:

Taking seriously Ireland’s euphemism for World War II, “the Emergency,” Anna Teekell’s Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.

Anchored in close textual analysis of works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin, and Patrick Kavanagh, and suppported by archival material and historical research, Emergency Writing shows how Irish late modernism was a response to the sociopolitical conditions of a newly independent Irish Free State and to a fully emerged modernism in literature and art.

What emerges in Irish writing in the wake of Independence, of the Gaelic Revival, of Yeats and of Joyce, is a body of work that invokes modernism as a set of discursive practices with which to counter the Free State’s political pieties. Emergency Writing provides a new approach to literary modernism and to the literature of conflict, considering the ethical dilemma of performing neutrality—emotionally, politically, and rhetorically—in a world at war.

About the Author: Anna Teekell is an assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Emergency Writing | Irish Literature, ...
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu