Hiroko Ikeda and Kazuo Yokouchi eds. Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond: New Perspectives from Kyoto. Peter Lang, 2020. xi+228頁, N.p.

The British context has been a controversial area for those involved in Irish literature and Irish studies. Behind the present volume lies a search for a view from which the frame of the British context as well as the dichotomy between British and Irish literature can be dismantled and disrupted in a most creative sense. It addresses the question of Irish literature’s intrinsic openness by first focusing on the British context that affected Irish literary production through three centuries and then looking beyond it towards the European or global context that lay behind Irish modernism. The book further extends its research to modern Irish poetry and discusses three prominent poets after W.B. Yeats whose works are in and beyond the British context in each different way. Providing unique and new perspectives that have been evolved mostly from an international conference held in Kyoto, Japan, this collection attempts to reassess and explore the values of Irish literature in a global context.

Hiroko Ikeda and Kazuo Yokouchi

Introduction: Towards New Perspectives

Part I   Irish Literature in the British Context, 1500-1900

Mari Mizuno

Lodowick Bryskett's FAshoning of 'Master Edmond Spenser'

Miki Iwata

Tony Lumpkin in and out of Sweet Auburn: The Literary Topography of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

Kazuo Yokouchi

The 'Godfather' of Victorian Realism: William Maginn and the Cultural Conflict in the 1830s

Naoyuki Mizuno

A Report from Field Research: The James Family in Ireland

Part II  Irish modernism in and beyond the British Context, 1890-1940

Taeko Kakihara

'That Which Is Called Evil--Is Good': What Sotoba Komachi Handed to Crazy Jane

Peter Robinson

The English-language Poetry of Shotaro Oshima: An Introduction by W. B. Yeats

Luca Crispi

A French Homer in America: James Joyce, Henry Matisse and George Macy's Limited Editions Club Ulysses

Part III Modern Irish Poetry in and beyond the Irish Tradition, 1930-2000

Hiromi Nakamura

'Shancoduff' Revisited: Patrick Kavanagh and the Poetic Rendering of 'Place'

Mariko Nishitani

John Montague's Apprenticeship and the Legacy of Yeats

Hiroko Ikeda

Beyond Being Irish or Celtic: The Double Vision of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's 'Cailleach/Hag' in Feis

Coda   In Memory of Kyoto, 2019

Celia de Fréine

The Conference Effect