Emergency writing : Irish literature, neutrality, and the Second World War /
Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II's "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency. Anchored in close textual analys...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cultural expressions of World War II.
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| Summary: | Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II's "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency. Anchored in close textual analysis of works by Samuel Beckett Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin and Patrick Kavanagh, and supported by archival material and historical research, Emergency Writing shows how Irish late modernism was a response to the sociopolitcal conditions of a newly independent Irish Free State and, to a fully emerged modernism in literature and art, what emerges in Irish writing in the wake of Independence, of the Gaets and of Joyce, is a body of work that invokes modernism as a set of discursive practices with which to counter the Free State's political parties. Emergency Writing provides a new approach to literary modernism and to the literature of conflict, considering the ethical dilemma of performing neutrality, emotionally, politically and rhetorically, in a world at war. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780810137257 0810137259 9780810137264 0810137267 |