Technology in Irish Literature and Culture
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- January 2023
- January 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781009182881
- 9781009182874
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.66kg, 352 Pages
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Book 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.
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 Source: Irish University Review
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