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Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the Primitive Sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of Postcolonial literature.
List of contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Performing the Primitive Sublime: the Celtic Revival and Irish Indigeneity
Chapter Three: James Joyce and the Primitive Sublime: from
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to
Ulysses and
Finnegans WakeChapter Four: Mid-century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Kate O'Brien, and Edna O'Brien
Chapter Five: The Living Dead: the Late Century Resurgence of the Primitive Sublime in works by Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Brian Friel
Chapter Six: Primitive Sublime Terror: Writing New York after 9/11 in O'Neill, McCann, and Tóibín
About the author
Maria McGarrity is a professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She has been published in journals including the
James Joyce Quarterly,
Ariel: a Review of International English Literature,
CLA Journal, and
The Journal of West Indian Literature. She has published two monographs,
Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature (Delaware, 2008) and
Allusions in Omeros: Notes and a Guide for Derek Walcott's Masterpiece (Florida, 2015) and two co-edited collections,
Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive (Palgrave, 2009) and
Caribbean Irish Connections (University of the West Indies Press, 2015).
Summary
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the Primitive Sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland’s artistic production and the wider global cultural production of Postcolonial literature.
