FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W4386335655> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W4386335655 endingPage "420" @default.
• W4386335655 startingPage "418" @default.
• W4386335655 abstract "Reviewed by: Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled by Nicholas Allen Kathryn Kirkpatrick (bio) IRELAND, LITERATURE, AND THE COAST: SEATANGLED, by Nicholas Allen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 305 pp. $99.00 cloth. In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh argues that the conventions of the realistic novel, including the stable, rational human being assumed by the genre, have been made possible by a predictable climate that allows the natural world to serve as an unthreatening backdrop to human activities.1 As I read Nicholas Allen's new study of the sea, the coast and the changing states of water (279) in selected works of Irish writing from W. B. Yeats to the present, I wondered if something similar might be said of the conventions of literary criticism. Just as Dipesh Chakrabarty has argued that, in our era of climate crisis, the discipline of history must reckon with a natural world's agency by putting geological time and the biological time of evolution in conversation with the time of [End Page 418] human history and experience (7),2 so Allen suggests the need for literary studies radically reconstituted by the natural world. In this sense, Seatangled not only charts the many moments of transition between land and sea that occur in Irish literature (4), but also the transition between one method of literary analysis and another. Allen calls for a perspective permeated by the elements, here a hydro-criticism that suits his subject, a form of fluid thinking … unmoored 'from the boundaries of the nation' (7, 3). In Seatangled, national literature gives way to archipelago literature and the aesthetic histories of littoral spaces. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Allen's book attempts a critical narrative that runs from the late nineteenth century to the present (8), moving between canonical Irish writers defamiliarized through a watery lens—Yeats, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney—and less often addressed and differently contextualized archipelago writers—Erskine Childers, Seán O'Faoláin, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Joseph O'Neill among many others. Particularly striking in the volume's first half is the chapter on Jack Yeats's scrapbooks that juxtaposes sketches and newspaper clippings with advertisements for tobacco and citrus producers, a visual record of Yeats's own formation in an imperial archipelago and documentation of the pervasive influence of trade on the subject of nationality (82, 90). This chapter's fluid thinking turns into the unexpected channel of Jack Yeats's close friendship with Samuel Beckett where Allen reads the former's language of joy and the latter's despair as both features of the play of light on the moving tides … of the ruinous transformations that Ireland experienced as a contested island in the archipelago (101). Allen conducts his analysis by means of watery metaphors and a language of liquidity (174). Yeats's At the Hawk's Well becomes a play about liquidity and the material exchanges of empire, while The Second Coming is a poem where the absolute division of ground and water (33) renders life unsustainable.3 Dubliners unfolds through metaphors of fluid dissolution (55), where a tumult of water as an uncontrollable force becomes a warning about the power of offshore capital (60); the stories leak into each other in a series of coastal and maritime images (62).4 A Portrait appears as a wet book, and Stephen's is a liquid imagination: art becomes an ark of refuge (66, 68). In Ulysses, the boundary between land and water generates images of transgression, the novel itself porous and diffuse because it admits a language of liquidity, the coast an unregulated border between past and present (72, 73).5 Later, Heaney's poems appear as a complicated medium, underpinned by a long history of seepage, a medium that requires a critical hydrology, [End Page 419] a phenomenology of water (129). One of the volume's most expert integrations of water as symbol and water as element appears in Allen's reading of Ciaran Carson's poem, Dresden, where Belfast is figured as a quickly-made imperial city whose modern core is built on stilts that stand in estuarial mud, its rivers culverted, the urban fringes touching the..." @default.
• W4386335655 created "2023-09-01" @default.
• W4386335655 date "2023-03-01" @default.
• W4386335655 modified "2023-10-01" @default.
• W4386335655 title "Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled by Nicholas Allen (review)" @default.
• W4386335655 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905390" @default.
• W4386335655 hasPublicationYear "2023" @default.
• W4386335655 type Work @default.
• W4386335655 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W4386335655 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C108170787 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C142932270 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C161191863 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C171533372 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C2776608160 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C2777200299 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C2777855551 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C2780623531 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C36289849 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C7991579 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C95124753 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C108170787 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C124952713 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C138885662 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C142362112 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C142932270 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C144024400 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C161191863 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C166957645 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C171533372 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C2776608160 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C2777200299 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C2777855551 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C2780623531 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C36289849 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C41008148 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C41895202 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C7991579 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C95124753 @default.
• W4386335655 hasConceptScore W4386335655C95457728 @default.
• W4386335655 hasIssue "3" @default.
• W4386335655 hasLocation W43863356551 @default.
• W4386335655 hasOpenAccess W4386335655 @default.
• W4386335655 hasPrimaryLocation W43863356551 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2039228255 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2355002940 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2364812060 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2383823063 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2392781413 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2393803462 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2394272753 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2623049744 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
• W4386335655 hasRelatedWork W4244870348 @default.
• W4386335655 hasVolume "60" @default.
• W4386335655 isParatext "false" @default.
• W4386335655 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W4386335655 workType "article" @default.