Nostalgia and national identity in the British and Irish modernist epic / Sarah Coogan.
| Author/creator | Coogan, Sarah Elizabeth author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xiii, 184 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface. The books I might have written -- Introduction. Chosen homelands -- Competing nostalgias and Irish identity in James Joyce's Ulysses -- Epic satire and epiphanic nostalgia in Mina Loy's Anglo-mongrels and the rose -- Place, transcendence, and equivocal nostalgia in Lynette Roberts' Gods with stainless ears and T.S. Eliot's four quartets -- Anamnesis and nostalgic temporality in David Jones' The anathemata -- Conclusion. Re-membering home in the postcolonial epic. |
| Abstract | "This book focuses on the modernist epic, analyzing the intricate manifestations of nostalgia in these texts in order to provide a new perspective on the emotion's political ramifications. It argues that the modernist epic, with its fragmentary forms and vast allusive range, exhibits a mode of nostalgia that disrupts linear cultural tradition in favor of layering and juxtaposing past and present. Focusing on techniques like juxtaposition and parallelism not only provides insight into modernist poetics; it also permits a more complex assessment of nostalgia's cultural implications. The methodological lens of literary form illuminates how these texts seek neither to abandon nor to reconstruct the past, rather striving to preserve and reimagine it. This innovative poetics of nostalgia addresses not only literary scholarship, but also history, politics, classics, and media and cultural studies."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781009686693 |
| ISBN | 9781009686655 |
| ISBN | 1009686658 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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