Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800-2000 - The Transformation of Oral Space

Informationen zum Autor David Lloyd is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Klappentext A provocative study of Irish orality in literature! popular culture and politics. Oral Space and Colonial Modernity "A provocative work, Lloyd's Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800-2000 makes substantial contributions to Irish Studies." -- James Joyce Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung David Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries! showing how the survival of orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture. This study is an important and provocative new interpretation of Irish national culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: a history of the Irish orifice; 1. Irish hunger: the political economy of the potato; 2. Closing the mouth: disciplining oral space; 3. Counterparts: the public house, masculinity and temperance nationalism; 4. 'Going nowhere': oral space in the cell block; 5. The breaker's yard: from forensic to interrogation modernity; 6. On extorted speech: back to How It Is; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Lloyd, David (University of Southern California) Lloyd, Lloyd David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107008977
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00897-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000