Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel : Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing EPUB
by Ian Tan
Part of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series
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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens's lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-American modernism, and how aesthetic re-imagining can be possible in the aftermath of the destruction of certainties and literary tradition heralded by postmodern practice and metatextual consciousness. It is this book's argument that intertextual influences flowing from Stevens's poetry towards the vitality of the novelistic imagination enact robust dialectical exchanges between existential chaos and artistic order, contemporary form and poetic precursors. Through readings of novels by important contemporary Irish novelists John Banville, Colum McCann, Ed O'Loughlin, Iris Murdoch, and Emma Donoghue, this book contemporizes Stevens's literary influence with refence to novelistic style, themes, and thematic preoccupations that stake the claim for the international status of the contemporary Irish novel as it shapes a new understanding of "world literature" as exchange between national languages, cultures, and alternative formulations of aesthetic modernity as continuing project.
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- Pages:140 pages
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- Publication Date:22/12/2023
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:140 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:22/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781003826620
