Ireland and the Problem of Information - Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication

Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism's historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New York, Addis Ababa, Rome, Berlin, Geneva, and the world's radio receivers, Ireland and the Problem of Information examines the pivotal mediations through which social knowledge was produced in the mid-twentieth century. Organized as a series of cross-fading case studies, the book argues that an expanded sphere of Irish cultural production should be read as much for what it indicates about practices of intermedial circulation and their consequences as for what it reveals about Irish writing around the time of the Second World War. In this way, it positions the "problem of information as, first and foremost, an international predicament, but one with particular national implications for the Irish field.

About the author

Damien Keane is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo.

Summary

A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became today’s information age.

Product details

• Authors: Damien Keane, Damien (SUNY Buffalo) Keane
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2016
• EAN: 9780271064130
• ISBN: 978-0-271-06413-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General