Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory

By Nicholas Andrew Miller

Book Overview

Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Asserting that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing, he investigates a series of case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses Ireland's self-construction through external or foreign discourses such as the cinema, and proposes new readings of Yeats and Joyce as counter-memorialists. This original study attracts scholars of Modernism, Irish studies, film and literary theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521118956
• ISBN13: 9780521118958
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"