Liam Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." 1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner.The idea of a world without work might well jar with our contemporary minds, as indeed it might have with the working classes of Wilde's own times.Recent world events have put conventional forms of work under strain as well as highlighting forms of work we might p…
Mike McCormack's style of post-mortem modernism
The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism of influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach modernist legacies by closely examining the style of Mike McCormack's one-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016). I argue that Solar Bones responds to the Irish economic crash of 2008 by performing a kind of '…
Mike McCormack's style of post-mortem modernism
The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism of influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach modernist legacies by closely examining the style of Mike McCormack's one-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016). I argue that Solar Bones responds to the Irish economic crash of 2008 by performing a kind of '…
Introduction
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." 1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner.The idea of a world without work might well jar with our contemporary minds, as indeed it might have with the working classes of Wilde's own times.Recent world events have put conventional forms of work under strain as well as highlighting forms of work we might p…
Mike McCormack's style of post-mortem modernism
The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism of influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach modernist legacies by closely examining the style of Mike McCormack's one-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016). I argue that Solar Bones responds to the Irish economic crash of 2008 by performing a kind of '…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Celtic Tiger (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (1 work) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (1 work) · History (1 work)