Irish Cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] : Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett /
Pearson, Nels,1969-author.
Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Of coast and cosmos: locating Irish expatriate modernism -- Ulysses, the sea, and the paradox of Irish internationalism -- "Forget! Remember!": Joyce's voices and the haunted cosmos -- Elizabeth Bowen's tenacious cosmopolitanism -- Crossings still: Irish interludes in Bowen's European novels -- "Haunt[ing] the waterfront": place and displacement in Echo's bones and les nouvelles -- Beckett, setting, and cosmopolitical philosophy.
Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.
Description based on print version record.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
English literature
Modernism (Literature)
Cosmopolitanism in literature.