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Iceland and Ireland, two North-Atlantic islands on the periphery of Europe, share a long history that reaches back to the ninth century. Direct contact between the islands has ebbed and flowed like their shared Atlantic tides over the subsequent millennium, with long blanks and periods of apparently very little exchange, transit or contact. These relational and regularly ruptured histories, discontinuities and dispossessions are discussed here less to cover (again) the well-trodden ground of our national traditions. Rather, this volume productively illuminates how a variety of memory modes, expressed in trans-cultural productions and globalized genre forms, such as museums cultures, crime novels, the lyric poem, the medieval codex or historical fiction, operate in multi-directional ways as fluid transnational agents of change in and between the two islands. At the same time, there is an alertness to the ways in which physical, political and linguistic isolation and exposure have also made these islands places of forgetting.
Price: $132.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Publication Date:
10 February 2022
ISBN: 9789004502864
Format: Hardcover
Fionnuala Dillane is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at University College Dublin. She is author of Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (2013) and co-editor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (2016) and Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire (2018).
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her previous books include Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (2017) and Noir in the North(2020).
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her previous books include Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (2017) and Noir in the North(2020).