Tag: Modernism

FUNDING: Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund (2025-2026)

General News, Postgrad, Scholarships and Grants

Established by Dr. Joseph Valente, UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English, the Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund award provides up to $2,000 for visiting scholars and graduate students whose research is centered on the writings of James Joyce, Modernism, Joyce-related research, Sylvia Beach, Modernist publishers, Modernist genetic criticism, Joyce’s literary circle, his literary colleagues, or his influences. This

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NEW BOOK: A Nation, not A Parish

New Publications

he Homewhere-s and Elsewhere-s of 1930s Irish Culture by Madalina Armie (Volume editor)Verónica Membrive (Volume editor)Germán Peral (Volume editor) Reimagining Ireland, Volume 138 Peter Lang As recent studies on the «London Irish» and on the work of almost forgotten artists have revealed, there existed in the 1930s a vibrant appreciation and response to international politics and artistic innovations. Many Irish writers

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VISITING SCHOLAR: Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund (2024-2025)

Scholarships and Grants

Established by Dr. Joseph Valente, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English, the Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund award provides up to $2,000 for visiting scholars and graduate students whose research is centred on the writings of James Joyce, Modernism, Joyce-related research, Sylvia Beach, Modernist publishers, Modernist genetic criticism, Joyce’s literary circle, his literary colleagues, or his influences. This fund

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NEW BOOK: Modernism in Irish Women’s Contemporary Writing

General News, New Publications

Paige Reynolds | Oxford University Press Modernism in Irish Women’s Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women’s fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary

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BOOK: Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett

New Publications

Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations By Matthew Fogarty Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature This new publication reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist

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CFP: Tradition and Experimentation in Irish Literature since Modernism

Call for Papers, New Publications

The tension between adherence to traditional modes of expression, and experimentation has underlain modern Irish literature. Regarded as the epitome of Modernist experimental writing, James Joyce went so far in pushing the boundaries of what constituted prose as to become the object of criticism from such different commentators as Lukács and Pound, both of whom found fault with Joyce for

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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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New Book: Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination

New Publications

By Prof Eve Patten Oxford University Press This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and

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