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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Teekell, Anna (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]
Series:	Cultural expressions of World War II.
Subjects:	English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism. Irish literature > 20th century > History and criticism. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war. Modernism (Literature) > Ireland. Ireland > Intellectual life > 20th century. HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The rhetoric of Irish neutrality
Pilgrimage as poetic form : Kavanagh and Devlin at Lough Derg
The enemy within : Louis MacNeice's war poetry
Careful talk : Elizabeth Bowen and language at war
Unreadable books, unspeakable worlds : Beckett and O'Brien in purgatory
Epilogue: The emergency's improbable frequency.