The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation by John Greaney (London: Bloomsbury 2022)

2023/11/27 by Barry Sheils · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Irish and British Studies

paper · doi:10.16995/pr.11614

openalex publication_date 2023/11/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

John Greaney's The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation explores a point of tension in Irish Studies between modernist aesthetics and postcolonial historiography. Challenging the theoretical paradigms prevalent in contemporary Irish Studies, the book invites us to interrogate the meta-historical and political narratives that inform our reading of literary works by Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, and Kate O’Brien.

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