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Smyth, G (2024) The Past, the Present and the Wonderful, Worrisome Future: Transculturalism, Memory and Crisis in Irish Studies. In: Barros-del Rio, MA, (ed.) Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society: Breaking New Ground. Routledge, pp. 179-191. ISBN 9781003428350
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Abstract
Irish cultural criticism was born during the revolutionary era of the late Victorian period as the child of crisis, and crisis remained its dominant mode of articulation and operation throughout the twentieth century. As the result of more recent developments at both a national and an international level – the demise of the Celtic Tiger, the advance of political populism, the escalating environmental crisis, and so on – that impression of crisis has moved from a metaphorical to a literal register in the last three decades or so. This essay brings together personal memory (my own and those of some of my contemporaries), cultural theory and the pressing politics of the present moment in an attempt to re-orient Irish Studies towards a more impactful and more responsible mode of operation going forward.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities and Social Science |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2024 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 09:39 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.4324/9781003428350 |
| Editors: | Barros-del Rio, MA |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24581 |
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