Excess in Modern Irish Writing (eBook)

Spirit and Surplus

Michael McAteer (Autor)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XIV, 279 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-37413-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems, plays and fiction by a wide range of Irish authors are considered. These include works by Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr and Medbh McGuckian.  The readings presented illustrate how Matthew Arnold's nineteenth-century idea of the excessive character of the Celt is itself exceeded within the modernity of twentieth-century Irish writing.

Michael McAteer is Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Previously, he taught Irish writing at the School of English, Queen's University Belfast. His previous publications include Yeats and European Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Silence in Modern Irish Literature (ed.) (Brill, 2017).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 279 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Schlagworte: Alain Badiou • British and Irish Literature • Dion Boucicault • Elizabeth Bowen • excess • George Bernard Shaw • James Joyce • Louis MacNeice • Martin Heidegger • Modern Irish writing • Oscar Wilde • Philosophical investigation • Samuel Beckett • W. B. Yeats
• ISBN-10: 3-030-37413-0 / 3030374130
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-37413-6 / 9783030374136