Sacred Weather: Atmospheric Essentialism in the Work of John McGahern

by Campbell

Is there such a thing as essential Irishness, something which can be experienced, invested in, and politically weaponised? Sacred Weather proposes to take this idea seriously, or literally, by proposing an objective correlative to 'Irishness' in certain atmospheric effects - or Stimmung - as these are depicted in literature, art, and film. By filtering the concept of pure pleasure, through recent writings on Marxist and affect theory by Antonio Negri,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782053441
• ISBN13: 9781782053446
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"