Coilin Parsons

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, arguing that the roots of Irish modernism lie in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198832119
• ISBN-10: 0198832117
• Artikelnr.: 54440577

Autorenporträt

Cóilín Parsons is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Maps, Modernity, Modernism
I. Archives
1: Archive: The Ordnance Survey Letters
2: Anarchive: James Clarence Mangan among the Ruins
II. Scales
3: The Scales of Modernity I: The Aran Islands
4: The Scales of Modernity II: Ulysses' Encyclopedic Narrative
Epilogue
5: "Accursed Progenitor!": Beckett's Abstract Landscapes
Bibliography
Index