Modernism in Irish Women''s Contemporary Writing - The Stubborn Mode

This volume explores the relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. Paige Reynolds examines how the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, and others, employs the modernist mode to articule female interiority as a way of thinking about contemporary social problems.

List of contents

• Introduction: Looking


• 1: Refashioning Modernism (Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Kelly, Evelyn Conlon, June Caldwell)


• 2: Praying (Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, Emma Donoghue, Eimear McBride)


• 3: Daydreaming (Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden)


• 4: Logging Off (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Claire-Louise Bennett, Louise O'Neill)


• 5: Reading (Sally Rooney, Anna Burns)


• Coda: Recalibrating (Mike McCormack)

About the author

Paige Reynolds is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. She writes on the subjects of modernism, drama and performance, and modern and contemporary Irish literature. She is author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle (Cambridge, 2007). She is the editor of Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture (Anthem Press, 2016), The New Irish Studies (Cambridge, 2020), and Irish Literature in Transition, Volume 6, 1980-2020 (Cambridge, 2020, with Eric Falci).

Summary

This volume explores the relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. Paige Reynolds examines how the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, and others, employs the modernist mode to articule female interiority as a way of thinking about contemporary social problems.

Additional text

Reynolds convincingly argues for the potential of such modernism in contemporary texts to point us towards answers to stubborn problems-perhaps most notably in their insistence on close reading-and to teach us new ways beyond them.

Product details

• Authors: Paige Reynolds, Paige (College of the Holy Cross) Reynolds, Reynolds Paige
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2023
• EAN: 9780198881056
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888105-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Ireland, Modernism, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000