Excess in Modern Irish Writing: Spirit and Surplus

By Michael McAteer

Book Overview

Chapter One: Introduction.- Part One: Mystical Excess.- Chapter Two: Excess as Spiritual Ecstasy: Yeats and Joyce.- Chapter Three: Oriental Excess: Wilde, Yeats, MacNeice.- Chapter Four: Transgressive Sacrifice: Pearse, Yeats, Carr.- Part Two: Material Excess.- Chapter Five: Money and Melodrama: Boucicault, Wilde, Shaw.- Chapter Six: Disposable Living: O'Casey, Beckett, Doyle.- Chapter Seven: Trashing Ulster: Patterson and Reid.- Part Three: Mythic and Linguistic Excess.- Chapter Eight: Mythic Excess: Finnegans Wake.- Chapter Nine: A-voiding the Subject: Bowen and Beckett.- Chapter Ten: Rhyming Away: Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030374157
• ISBN13: 9783030374150
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"