Guest Lecture Series in Irish Studies: “Coming to Terms with the Tundish: The Languages of Irish Modernism”
By focusing on the ways in which the language shift in Ireland haunts the works of Irish writers in the early 20th century, this lecture aims to provide students with an overview of a key characteristic of Irish modernist literature. After a brief survey of the history of languages in Ireland, the lecture will illustrate how a set of Irish writers, including James Joyce, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien responded to what Thomas Kinsella termed ‘the dual tradition’ of Irish literature. While the variety of their very different responses to this split inheritance will be emphasised, the lecture will highlight how language itself is always, on some level, unheimlich and under question in their works. And it will be suggested that this unsettled perspective on language is one of the ways in which these Irish writers spoke to Ezra Pound’s modernist imperative, ‘make it new’.
Veranstalter
Vortragende(r)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aidan O’Malley
Kontakt
Nursen Gömceli (Nursen [dot] Goemceli [at] aau [dot] at)
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