Modernism Ireland and the Erotics of Memory

Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Asserting that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing he investigates a series of case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses Ireland''s self-construction through external or foreign discourses such as the cinema and proposes new readings of Yeats and Joyce as counter-memorialists. This original study attracts scholars of Modernism Irish studies film and literary theory.