Tag: JM Synge

GUEST LECTURE: J.M. Synge in Context

Events

                                                         GUEST LECTURE SERIES IN IRISH STUDIES Department of English University of Klagenfurt October 31, 2024/ 11.45-13.15/ N.1.44                             Title of talk: “J.M. Synge in Context” Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Ondřej Pilný, Charles University, Prague This lecture will offer a survey of the work of John Millington Synge, a principal playwright associated with the Irish Literary Revival, discussing the controversial

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CFP: Synge And Transnational Modernisms

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

Recent scholarship on Synge by Gregory Castle (2001) Sinéad Garrigan Mattar (2004), Hélène Lecossois (2021) and Seán Hewitt (2021) have all examined how J.M. Synge’s reflections on rapid and uneven modernity in Ireland can be seen as a modernist aesthetic. Most recently of all, Hewitt has argued that ‘Synge’s influence on twentieth-century modernism (and on postmodernism) is yet to be

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