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Space, Technology and Modernity in Irish Literature May 21-22.
Organisers: Graham Price, University College Dublin (graham.price@ucd.ie) and Liam Lanigan (liaminhungary@gmail.com) University College Dublin.
Location: Humanities Institute of Ireland. UCD, Belfield Campus
This conference will examine how Ireland’s engagement with the onslaught of modernity is depicted in works of Irish literature from the end of the 19 th century to the present day. The existence of a so-called Irish modernism has been a hotly debated topic among academics for several decades now and this conference wishes to invite new critical voices to offer their views on whether there actually is a recognisable Irish Modernism as opposed to merely Irish Modernists.
Delegates will examine Irish writers’ attitudes to rurality, urbanity and technology and we shall discuss whether Irish modernist texts deal with these topics in a way that is recognisably different from more mainstream European authors such as Proust, Pound and Elliot. The question of how Ireland’s status as a British colony has influenced her vision of modernity will be a key topic of discussion. While papers on major Irish authors such as Joyce, Yeats and Beckett are certainly welcome, we would also encourage delegates to present on more contemporary writers such as Colm Tobin, Conor McPherson and Jamie O’Neill. A comparison twentieth and twenty-first century Irish texts would facilitate debate about whether Irish literature’s attitude to modernity has changed over the course of the last hundred years.
Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
● Is the rural is privileged over the urban in modern Irish literature? ● The prevalence of Gothicism in Irish Modernism. ● Irish Modernism and Philosophy. ● Gender and sexuality in Irish modernist literature. ● Ireland’s engagement with globalisation. ● Attitudes to history. ● Catholicism and Irish modernity. ● The influence of the pre-modern on the modern in Ireland. ● Is contemporary Irish fiction too indebted to the old masters such as Joyce and Yeats?
Deadline for abstracts: 25 th April 2009. Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words and should include affiliation and student status.
Abstracts and queries to: Graham Price (graham.price@ucd.ie) and Liam Lanigan (liaminhungary@gmail.com)
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