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Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre: A Paleo-Postmodern Perspective
Author(s): Catriona Ryan (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 16 Feb. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 270 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443836265
- ISBN-13: 9781443836265
Book Description
This work analyses the prose and drama of the Irish writer Tom Mac Intyre and the concept of paleo-postmodernism. It examines how Mac Intyre balances traditional themes with experimentation, which in the Irish literary canon is unusual. This book argues that Mac Intyre’s position in the Irish literary canon is an idiosyncratic one in that he combines two contrary aspects of Irish literature: between what Beckett terms as the Yeatsian ‘antiquarians’ who valorize the ‘Victorian Gael’ and the ‘others’ whose aesthetic involves a European-influenced ‘breakdown of the object’ which is associated with Beckett. Mac Intyre’s experimentation involves a breakdown of the object in order to uncover an unconscious Irish mythological and linguistic space in language. His approach to language experimentation is Yeatsian and this is what the author terms as paleo-postmodern. Thus the project considers how Mac Intyre incorporates Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction in his drama and short stories.
Editorial Reviews
Review
”Catriona Ryan has more than achieved what she set out to do. She has emphatically presented Tom Mac Intyre as a writer with a distinctive voice who not only provides a crucial link in the chain that goes back through Kavanagh to Yeats, but as a bridging figure, a transgressive author whose reflections on the Irish literary scene, and on writing more generally, have much to tell us about the ways in which constrictive critical currents can cut off living literary streams. It is clear from Catriona Ryan’s painstaking excavation that Mac Intyre has been wrongly neglected. Her thoughtful and perceptive critical intervention will remedy that wrong.” – Willy Maley, Litteraria Pragensia, 22:44 (2013), 131-134, p. 134.”This is a critically independent piece of work that very much constructs and defines its own project, and maps an intellectual terrain of its own. It is an impressively original and also critically self-assured piece. It is marked by a sense of intellectual brio and also by the excitement of discovery.”– Dr Steven Vine, Swansea University”Since Tom Mac Intyre is a writer and dramatist who has received very little critical attention, this work intervenes in an under-researched area and offers an innovative and valuable extension of the frontier of knowledge in the field of Irish literary and dramatic studies.”– Dr Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University
About the Author
Dr Catriona Ryan is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Swansea University. She undertook her MPhil at the National University of Ireland, Cork, and has recently completed her PhD at Swansea University. She has published an essay on the work of Tom Mac Intyre in Strays from the Ether: The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre edited by Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2010).
