Modernism, Ireland and Civil War

The first two decades of Irish independence were fraught and the formation of the post-imperial state was a continual controversy. The conditional perception of what Ireland was, should, or might be coincided with a revolution in the arts. Now forgotten cultures flared and disappeared, little magazines, cabaret clubs, riots and theatres erupting in a fluctuating public sphere. Nicholas Allen reads the crisis of Irish independence as formative of newly experimental relations between novels, poems, paintings, artists and audiences. The conditional, unfinished spaces of the modernist artwork were an unfinished civil war. In connecting these texts and times, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the controversies surrounding the Irish state after 1922. With its interdisciplinary perspective on artists and contexts, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish culture of the 1920s and 30s and of modernism's histories.

Author: Nicholas Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/02/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780521489959

About the Author
Allen, Nicholas: - Nicholas Allen is Moore Institute Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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