16th & 17th April 2010
Venue:
Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Lyn Pykett, University of Aberystwyth
Prof. Adrian Frazier, NUI Galway
Prof. Joseph Bristow, UCLA
In the past fifteen years a lively and growing dynamic has emerged in Irish scholarship which has broadened critical discourse beyond previous somewhat static literary-historical categories, deploying postcolonial, feminist and queer approaches to Irish literature and culture. This troubling of the canon enables us to find new ways of reading canonical work, and to address forms and writers hitherto neglected. This symposium on Ireland, Modernism and the fin de siècle aims to explore one such area, by interrogating the connections and potential incompatibilities between formal and textual experimentation in the work of Irish writers at the fin de siècle, and the subsequent emergence and transnational reach of literary modernism.
Organisers
Dr. Kathryn Laing, Dr. Tina O’Toole,
Mary Immaculate College Limerick University of Limerick
Contact Details
Dr. Kathryn Laing
Department of English
Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
E-mail: kathryn.laing@mic.ul.ie
Dr. Tina O’Toole
English
School of Languages, Literature, Culture & Communication
University of Limerick
E-mail: tina.otoole@ul.ie
