{"product_id":"emergency-writing-anna-teekell-9780810137257","title":"Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, \"the Emergency,\" Anna Teekell's \u003ci\u003eEmergency Writing\u003c\/i\u003e asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anchored in close textual analysis of works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin, and Patrick Kavanagh, and supported by archival material and historical research, \u003ci\u003eEmergency Writing\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Irish late modernism was a response to the sociopolitical conditions of a newly independent Irish Free State and to a fully emerged modernism in literature and art. What emerges in Irish writing in the wake of Independence, of the Gaelic Revival, of Yeats and of Joyce, is a body of work that invokes modernism as a set of discursive practices with which to counter the Free State's political pieties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmergency Writing\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new approach to literary modernism and to the literature of conflict, considering the ethical dilemma of performing neutrality--emotionally, politically, and rhetorically--in a world at war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Teekell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810137259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810137257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Anna Teekell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096744370431,"sku":"9780810137257","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/emergency-writing-anna-teekell-9780810137257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}