Seamus O'Malley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4570431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seamus O'Malley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seamus |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Malley |
| SIGNATURE | MALLEY S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of English, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Irish Culture and “The People: Populism and its Discontents
This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fo…
Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative
O'Malley explores how several British modernists applied the experimental methods of literary modernism to the writing of narrative history and historical novels. The historical novel is usually assumed to be only a concern of either nineteenth-century realism or postmodernism, but the historical texts of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West evidence a modernist obsession with historical narrative.
The critic who does not exist: Edmund Wilson as novelist in the 1920s
Notes1 Louis Menand introduced both volumes; see also his ‘Missionary: Edmund Wilson and American Culture’, The New Yorker, 8 August 2005.2 Joseph Epstein complained that ‘In re-reading him, one realizes how unoriginal he could be: a Marxist in a time of Marxists, a Freudian in a time of Freudians, he did not strike out much on his own’ Commentary, December 2005. Joseph Bottum pronounced that ‘The great reader – that fat, ferocious man, dancing t…
Ford Madox Ford and America
The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, espec…
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Ford Madox Ford and America
The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, espec…
Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative
O'Malley explores how several British modernists applied the experimental methods of literary modernism to the writing of narrative history and historical novels. The historical novel is usually assumed to be only a concern of either nineteenth-century realism or postmodernism, but the historical texts of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West evidence a modernist obsession with historical narrative.
The critic who does not exist: Edmund Wilson as novelist in the 1920s
Notes1 Louis Menand introduced both volumes; see also his ‘Missionary: Edmund Wilson and American Culture’, The New Yorker, 8 August 2005.2 Joseph Epstein complained that ‘In re-reading him, one realizes how unoriginal he could be: a Marxist in a time of Marxists, a Freudian in a time of Freudians, he did not strike out much on his own’ Commentary, December 2005. Joseph Bottum pronounced that ‘The great reader – that fat, ferocious man, dancing t…
Irish Culture and “The People: Populism and its Discontents
This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fo…
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