John Greaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Greaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Greaney |
| SIGNATURE | GREANEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3388-0249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modernist memories
This introduction sets the critical parameters for this special issue on the topic of modernist memories. It describes how the 1922 modernist centenary, and a general turn to critical commemoration across the humanities, has opened avenues for further questions on the interrelation between modernism and memory, questions that this introduction frames and the articles gathered in this issue explore: what is a modernist memory? How have modernist f…
Modernism living on
This article is concerned with the legacy of modernism in twenty-first century literature. It asks: do contemporary experimental literatures signal a new literary epoch distinct from iterations of modernism, late modernism and postmodernism which preceded them? Or can these categories overlap in the twenty-first century novel? Tackling these questions, this article probes the critical underpinnings that structure the perceived or ignored operatio…
The Distance of Irish Modernism
The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John M…
On The Legacies of Derrida and Deconstruction Today
In this interview, which took place in Center City in Philadelphia in September 2020, I ask Jean-Michel Rabaté to reflect on his personal and writerly relationship with Jacques Derrida, and to assess the legacies of Derrida and deconstruction across the globe today. In the last five years, Rabaté has published three books (one monograph and two edited volumes) on Derrida: Les Guerres de Derrida (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2016), After D…
Resisting representation
This article explores the extent to which Flann O’Brien’s early fiction can be read as ‘representing’ the cultural realities of post-independence Ireland. The rise of the new modernist studies has inspired a host of criticism to explain the Flann O’Brien oeuvre in terms of the cultural dynamics from which it ‘emerges’. The early novels, however, given their radically symbolic character – and the particular manner in which they efface memory – are…
The Last September
This article questions the idea that Irish literary modernism is defined by Irish postcoloniality. The continued influence of historicist approaches in literary studies have inspired an understanding of Irish modernism as determined by material base. An oversight of such approaches, however, is that much of the respective fiction which constitutes Irish modernism resists representing the cultural circumstances from which it emerges. Particular to…
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The Last September
This article questions the idea that Irish literary modernism is defined by Irish postcoloniality. The continued influence of historicist approaches in literary studies have inspired an understanding of Irish modernism as determined by material base. An oversight of such approaches, however, is that much of the respective fiction which constitutes Irish modernism resists representing the cultural circumstances from which it emerges. Particular to…
Resisting representation
This article explores the extent to which Flann O’Brien’s early fiction can be read as ‘representing’ the cultural realities of post-independence Ireland. The rise of the new modernist studies has inspired a host of criticism to explain the Flann O’Brien oeuvre in terms of the cultural dynamics from which it ‘emerges’. The early novels, however, given their radically symbolic character – and the particular manner in which they efface memory – are…
On The Legacies of Derrida and Deconstruction Today
In this interview, which took place in Center City in Philadelphia in September 2020, I ask Jean-Michel Rabaté to reflect on his personal and writerly relationship with Jacques Derrida, and to assess the legacies of Derrida and deconstruction across the globe today. In the last five years, Rabaté has published three books (one monograph and two edited volumes) on Derrida: Les Guerres de Derrida (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2016), After D…
The Distance of Irish Modernism
The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John M…
Modernist memories
This introduction sets the critical parameters for this special issue on the topic of modernist memories. It describes how the 1922 modernist centenary, and a general turn to critical commemoration across the humanities, has opened avenues for further questions on the interrelation between modernism and memory, questions that this introduction frames and the articles gathered in this issue explore: what is a modernist memory? How have modernist f…
Modernism living on
This article is concerned with the legacy of modernism in twenty-first century literature. It asks: do contemporary experimental literatures signal a new literary epoch distinct from iterations of modernism, late modernism and postmodernism which preceded them? Or can these categories overlap in the twenty-first century novel? Tackling these questions, this article probes the critical underpinnings that structure the perceived or ignored operatio…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Irish (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)