Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary.

Informationen zum Autor Michaela Schrage-Früh is lecturer in German at NUI Galway. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has authored numerous articles and co-edited several collections on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture. Tony Tracy is lecturer in Film and Media Studies at NUI Galway. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. He has authored numerous articles and co-edited a number of collections including Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture: Tiger Tales (2014) and John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director (2010). Klappentext This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Zusammenfassung This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy DRAMA Taking the "Black Stick": Ageing Husbands and Fathers in the Plays of J. M. Synge and Teresa Deevy Mária Kurdi "Are all the monks old men?" Ageing and the Male Monastic Community in Brian Friel's The Enemy Within Giovanna Tallone Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis Ciara L. Murphy POETRY Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities, and Ageing in Samuel Beckett's Early Poetry Collection Echo's Bones Heike Hartung Masculinity, Ageing, and Midlife Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Paul Durcan Anne Karhio Not Sailing to Byzantium: Aged Masculinities and Latour's Matters of Concern in the Late Works of Irish Male Poets Katarzyna Ostalska FICTION "That the Youth May Throw Us Aside": Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction Loic Wright Stuck in the Old Times: A Male-character Analysis on Three Irish Novels Through Corpus Stylistics Cassandra S. Tully Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's The Sea , Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture and Anne Griffin's When All is Said Michaela Schrage-Früh "Caught suddenly by the land shifting": Ageing Masculinity and Rural Ireland in Recent Irish Short Fiction Orlaith Darling "A bridge to nowhere": Arrested Development, Trauma, Liminality, and the Ageing Irish Exile in Bernard MacLaverty's Midwinter Break Clare Brannigan "Shades of Masculinities": Midlife and Caring Masculinity in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones Brenda O'Connell Colm Tóibín and Henry James: Portrait of an Ageing Master Heather Ingman VISUAL CULTURE Seán Keating's Ireland - the Land of Old Men Katarzyna Kociöek Ageing Masculinities and Irish Traditional Music on Screen Verena Commins and Méabh Ní Fhuartháin Changing the Picture: Older Men's Responses to Media Representations of Ageing in an Irish Context Margaret O'Neill and Áine Ní Léime ...

Autorentext

Michaela Schrage-Früh is lecturer in German at NUI Galway. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has authored numerous articles and co-edited several collections on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture.

Tony Tracy is lecturer in Film and Media Studies at NUI Galway. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. He has authored numerous articles and co-edited a number of collections including Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture: Tiger Tales (2014) and John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director (2010).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy ** DRAMA ****

2. Taking the "Black Stick": Ageing Husbands and Fathers in the Plays of J. M. Synge and Teresa Deevy
   Mária Kurdi

3. "Are all the monks old men?" Ageing and the Male Monastic Community in Brian Friel's The Enemy Within
   Giovanna Tallone

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4. Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis
   Ciara L. Murphy POETRY

5. Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities, and Ageing in Samuel Beckett's Early Poetry Collection Echo's Bones
   Heike Hartung ****

6. Masculinity, Ageing, and Midlife Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Paul Durcan
   Anne Karhio ****

7. Not Sailing to Byzantium: Aged Masculinities and Latour's Matters of Concern in the Late Works of Irish Male Poets
   Katarzyna Ostalska

   FICTION

8. "That the Youth May Throw Us Aside": Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction Loic Wright ****

9. Stuck in the Old Times: A Male-character Analysis on Three Irish Novels Through Corpus Stylistics
   Cassandra S. Tully ****

10. Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's The Sea, Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture and Anne Griffin's When All is Said
    Michaela Schrage-Früh ****

11. "Caught suddenly by the land shifting": Ageing Masculinity and Rural Ireland in Recent Irish Short Fiction Orlaith Darling

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12. "A bridge to nowhere": Arrested Development, Trauma, Liminality, and the Ageing Irish Exile in Bernard MacLaverty's Midwinter Break
    Clare Brannigan ****

13. "Shades of Masculinities": Midlife and Caring Masculinity in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones
    Brenda O'Connell ****

14. Colm Tóibín and Henry James: Portrait of an Ageing Master
    Heather Ingman

    VISUAL CULTURE

15. Seán Keating's Ireland - the Land of Old Men
    Katarzyna Kociöek ****

16. Ageing Masculinities and Irish Traditional Music on Screen Verena Commins and Méabh Ní Fhuartháin ****

17. Changing the Picture: Older Men's Responses to Media Representations of Ageing in an Irish Context
    Margaret O'Neill and Áine Ní Léime