Excess in modern Irish writing : spirit and surplus / Michael McAteer.
McAteer, Michael, 1968- author.
2020
PR8755
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Title Excess in modern Irish writing : spirit and surplus / Michael McAteer.
Author McAteer, Michael, 1968- author.
ISBN 9783030374136 (electronic book)
3030374130 (electronic book)
3030374122
9783030374129
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PR8755
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/9415
Summary This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems, plays and fiction by a wide range of Irish authors are considered. These include works by Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Sean OCasey, Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr and Medbh McGuckian. The readings presented illustrate how Matthew Arnolds nineteenth-century idea of the excessive character of the Celt is itself exceeded within the modernity of twentieth-century Irish writing.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 9, 2020).
Series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Part One: Mystical Excess
Chapter Two: Excess as Spiritual Ecstasy: Yeats and Joyce
Chapter Three: Oriental Excess: Wilde, Yeats, MacNeice
Chapter Four: Transgressive Sacrifice: Pearse, Yeats, Carr
Part Two: Material Excess
Chapter Five: Money and Melodrama: Boucicault, Wilde, Shaw
Chapter Six: Disposable Living: OCasey, Beckett, Doyle
Chapter Seven: Trashing Ulster: Patterson and Reid
Part Three: Mythic and Linguistic Excess
Chapter Eight: Mythic Excess: Finnegans Wake
Chapter Nine: A-voiding the Subject: Bowen and Beckett
Chapter Ten: Rhyming Away: Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian.

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