Irish cosmopolitanism : location and dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett / Nels Pearson.

Pearson, Nels, 1969- author.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) 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 — Epilogue : On .
  • 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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