This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments.
This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture.
The essays place the various literary traditions within a social and historical context and set out recent critical debates.
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.
An authoritative overview of the achievements of American literary modernism in its social and cultural contexts.
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A History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting, music, radio, and architecture.
Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.