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By Joe Cleary

the tale of Irish modernism constitutes a amazing bankruptcy within the movement's heritage. This quantity serves as an incisive and available evaluate of that impressive interval during which Irish artists not just helped to create a particular nationalist literature but additionally replaced the face of ecu and anglophone tradition. This significant other surveys advancements in modernist poetry, drama, fiction and the visible arts. Early innovators, reminiscent of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, in addition to overdue modernists, together with Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all look right here. considerably, despite the fact that, this quantity levels past such iconic figures to open up new flooring with chapters on Irish ladies modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and the severe reception of modernism in Ireland.

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