{"product_id":"the-distance-of-irish-modernism-john-greaney-9781350328464","title":"The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Distance of Irish Modernism\u003c\/i\u003einterrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, Flann O'Brien and Kate O'Brien, this book analyses how and if the complex representational strategies of modernist fictions provide a window on historical events and realities. Greaney deploys close reading, formal analysis, narratology and philosophical accounts of literature alongside historicist and materialist approaches, as well as postcolonial and world literature paradigms, to examine how modernist texts engage the cultural memories they supposedly transmit. Emphasizing the proximities and the distances between modernist aesthetic practice and the history of modernity in Ireland and beyond, this book enables a new model for narrating Irish modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Greaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350328464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350328464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"John Greaney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790265938175,"sku":"9781350328464","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e34e3f2-d2c3-4c6a-94ea-160d731e4abf.jpg?v=1707288435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-distance-of-irish-modernism-john-greaney-9781350328464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}