Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore's Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and Observations
March 2020
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Chapter
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Poetry and the Dictionary
‘What price stone? The shaping of inheritance into form in Richard Murphy’s The Price of Stone sonnet sequence’
July 2019
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Making Integral Critical Essays on Richard Murphy
These original essays offer new insights into Murphy's poetic preoccupations - love and loss, nature and solitude, history and inheritance - showing how Richard Murphy's life and work follow the contours of modern Ireland.
T. S. Eliot, 1922, and transatlantic culture
August 2017
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Journal article
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London Magazine
1922 can be seen not only as a fulcrum for literary modernism, but also as a significant moment when Eliot’s transatlantic influence as editor and poet allows him to dominate and shape the worlds of poetry and publishing.
Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture Axes of Influence
March 2017
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Book
This collection shows how the remapping of America in terms of global networks, and as a set of particular localities, or even glocalities, now plays out in Americanist scholarship, reflecting on the critical consequences of the spatial ...
Literary Criticism
“Beyond the Lines of Poetry”: Ethnic Traditions and Imaginative Interventions in Irish-American Poetics'
February 2017
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Journal article
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Oxford Handbooks Online
This article aims to provide a brief recent history of Irish-American literary studies, before focusing the discussion to show how “Irish-American Poetics” might be employed as an evaluative critical lens through which to regard Irish, American and transnational exchange. In so doing it discusses whether “Irish-American Poetics” can be used as a critical framework for reading poetry that might not traditionally be termed “Irish-American”, at least in terms of more obvious ethnic claims or cultural affiliations. This in turn might allow us to ask larger questions about how, when and why we assess and describe transnational cultural encounters, and what this might tell us about the ways in which we, as critics, readers, and writers, respond to our imaginative resources.
transatlantic literature, culture, American literature, literature, ethnicity, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, Irish-American literature
'The Man and the Echo: W. B. Yeats in Contemporary American Poetry and Song'.
October 2016
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Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture: Axes of Influence
This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace perceptions of American exceptionalism with broader notions of Atlanticism, transnationalism, world-system, and trans-localism as each has redefined the US and the world more generally. This collection shows how the remapping of America in terms of global networks, and as a set of particular localities, or even glocalities, now plays out in Americanist scholarship, reflecting on the critical consequences of the spatial turn in American literary and cultural studies. Spanning twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry, fiction, memoir, visual art, publishing, and television, and locating the US in Caribbean, African, Asian, European, and other contexts, this volume argues for a re-modelling of American-ness with the transnational as part of its innate rhetoric. It includes discussions of travel, migration, disease, media, globalization, and countless other examples of inflowing. Essays focus on subjects tracing the contemporary contours of the transnational, such as the role of the US in the rise of the global novel, the impact of Caribbean history on American thought (and vice versa), transatlantic cultural and philosophical genealogies and correspondences, and the exchanges between the poetics of American space and those of other world spaces. Asking questions about the way the American eye has traversed and consumed the objects and cultures of the world, but how that world is resistant, this volume will make an important contribution to American and Transatlantic literary studies.
Literary Criticism
‘Its native surroundings’: Marianne Moore, England, and the idea of the ‘characteristic American’
February 2016
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Journal article
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Modernist Cultures
Marianne Moore claimed that she was ‘Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic’. Critics have gone so far as to claim Moore as an Irish-American poet. In so doing they have glossed over the English side of her family background (as did Moore herself). This is perhaps unsurprising, considering that it was Moore's father, from whom she was estranged throughout her life, who was of English ancestry. Nevertheless, this ancestry lurks in the background of her imagination. This article argues that Moore's poetry and prose often map ‘Englishness’ onto ‘Americanness’. Here she is both the American tourist and the American settler, engaging with a colonial legacy upon which Englishness has been heavily imprinted. By considering the ways in which English and American cultures converge and diverge within Moore's writings – particularly in relation to the arguments she rehearses in her essay ‘Henry James as a Characteristic American’ (1934) – this article shows how Moore's ‘English’ background cannot be regarded as incidental to her writing.
SBTMR
‘Transatlantic poetics: “webs of connection” in recent Irish-American critical writing’
October 2015
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Journal article
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Symbiosis - A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations
SBTMR
American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910-1955: The Politics of Enchantment
November 2013
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Book
American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55: The politics of enchantment discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American modernists. It is the first study to extend the analysis of Irish influence on American literature beyond racial, ethnic or national frameworks.
Through close readings and archival research, American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55 provides a balanced and structured approach to the study of the complexities of American modernist writers' responses to Ireland. Offering new readings of familiar literary figures - including Fitzgerald, Moore, O'Neill, Steinbeck and Stevens - it makes for essential reading for students and academics working on twentieth-century American and Irish literature and culture, and transatlantic studies.
WB Yeats and the Ghost Club
January 2013
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Irish Writing London, Volume I: Revival to the Second World War
"So kind you are, to bring me this gift": Thomas MacGreevy, American Modernists, and the 'Gift' of Irishness
January 2013
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Chapter
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The Life of Thomas MacGreevy: A Critical Reappraisal
Introduction: 'The Idea of Influence in American Literature'
June 2011
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Journal article
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Comparative American Studies
"Writing was resilience. Resilience was an adventure": Marianne Moore, Bernard Shaw, and the Art of Writing
