Excess in Modern Irish Writing Spirit and Surplus 1st Edition by Michael Mcateer 9783030374136 3030374130

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• ISBN 10: 3030374130
• ISBN 13: 9783030374136
• Author: Michael Mcateer 

This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems, plays and fiction by a wide range of Irish authors are considered. These include works by Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr and Medbh McGuckian.  The readings presented illustrate how Matthew Arnold’s nineteenth-century idea of the excessive character of the Celt is itself exceeded within the modernity of twentieth-century Irish writing.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Idea of Excess
Part I. Mystical Excess
2. Excess as Spiritual Ecstasy: Yeats and Joyce
3. Oriental Excess: Wilde, Yeats, MacNeice
4. Transgressive Sacrifice: Pearse, Yeats, Carr
Part II. Material Excess
5. Money and Melodrama: Boucicault, Wilde, Shaw
6. Disposable Living: O’Casey, Beckett, Doyle
7. Trashing Ulster: Patterson and Reid
Part III. Mythic and Linguistic Excess
8. Mythic Excess: Finnegans Wake
9. Voiding the Subject: Bowen and Beckett
10. Here Beyond: Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian

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