Technology in Irish Literature and Culture
Technology in Irish Literature and Culture
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Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies—typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers—have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumption habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of the present moment, examining the longer history of literature's interactions with the technological and exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with technology.
- Provides comprehensive analyses of how technologies of media and communication have consistently transformed both the form and content of Irish literature and cultural production
- Reconsiders many of digital culture's most prevalent issues-socioeconomics, surveillance, the self, relationships-through the perspective of Ireland's national and diverse literary canon
- Demonstrates robust inter-disciplinary research in literary and cultural studies
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‘The scope afforded by this edited collection allows readers to trace historical undercurrents in Irish writing in a rapidly expanding field of literary inquiry and digital production. It will be essential reading for those interested in a thorough literary historical treatment of the changing and often contradictory powers, pleasures, and uses of technology as a theme, a method, and a mode of enquiry in Irish literature and culture.’ Maria Mulvany, Irish University Review
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- Published: January 2023
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781009192477
- Length: 0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Margaret Kelleher and James O'Sullivan
- Part I. Genealogies:
- 1. Print as technology: the case of the Irish language 1571–1850 Marc Caball
- 2. Printing and publishing technologies:
- 1700–1820 Máire Kennedy
- 3. The optical telegraph, the United Irish press, and Maria Edgeworth's 'White Pigeon' Joanna Wharton
- 4. Technologies of sound: telephone/gramophone Chris Morash
- Part II. Infrastructures:
- 5. Electric signs and echo chambers: the stupidity of affect in modern Irish literature Barry Sheils
- 6. Literature and the technologies of radio and television Robert Savage
- 7. The re-tuning of the world itself': Irish poetry on the radio Ian Whittington
- Part III. Invention:
- 8. Technology, writing and place in medieval Irish literature Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
- 9. The critique of sola scriptura in a tale of a tub and STEM in Gulliver's travels Sean Moore
- 10. Technology and Irish modernism Kathryn Conrad
- 11. W. B. Yeats, the revival and scientific invention Aoife Lynch
- 12. James Joyce, Irish modernism and watch technology Katherine Ebury
- 13. Technology, terminology and the Irish language, past and present Sharon Arbuthnot
- Part IV. The Digital:
- 14. Irish literary feminism and its digital archive(s) Margaret Kelleher and Karen Wade
- 15. Consoling machines in contemporary Irish fiction Claire Lynch
- 16. 'At me too someone is looking': staging surveillance in Irish theatre Victor Merriman
- 17. Technology in contemporary Irish poetry: data at 'the edge of language' Anne Karhio
- 18. Irish digital literature James O'Sullivan.
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