location and dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett /
Nels Pearson
xi, 179 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
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."
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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
Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989
Bowen, Elizabeth,1899-1973
Joyce, James,1882-1941
Cosmopolitanism in literature
English literature-- Irish authors-- History and criticism