Description
Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies-typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers-have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumption habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of the present moment, examining the longer history of literature's interactions with the technological and exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with technology.
This volume explores how technology has influenced both the form and content of Irish writing.
About the Author
Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is Board Member of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), former Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). See https://people.ucd.ie/margaret.o.kelleher. James O'Sullivan lectures in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork. His publications include Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature & Literary Games (2019) and The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2022). Visit jamesosullivan.org for more on his research.
Reviews
'The scope afforded by this edited collection allows readers to trace historical undercurrents in Irish writing in a rapidly expanding field of literary inquiry and digital production. It will be essential reading for those interested in a thorough literary historical treatment of the changing and often contradictory powers, pleasures, and uses of technology as a theme, a method, and a mode of enquiry in Irish literature and culture.' Maria Mulvany, Irish University Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781009182874
Author Margaret Kelleher
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 660g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 26mm
This volume explores how technology has influenced both the form and content of Irish writing.
About the Author
Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is Board Member of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), former Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). See https://people.ucd.ie/margaret.o.kelleher. James O'Sullivan lectures in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork. His publications include Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature & Literary Games (2019) and The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2022). Visit jamesosullivan.org for more on his research.
Reviews
'The scope afforded by this edited collection allows readers to trace historical undercurrents in Irish writing in a rapidly expanding field of literary inquiry and digital production. It will be essential reading for those interested in a thorough literary historical treatment of the changing and often contradictory powers, pleasures, and uses of technology as a theme, a method, and a mode of enquiry in Irish literature and culture.' Maria Mulvany, Irish University Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781009182874
Author Margaret Kelleher
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 660g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 26mm
