Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
Notes
Works Cited
Part I: Drama
Chapter 2: Taking the “Black Stick”: Ageing Husbands and Fathers in the Plays of J. M. Synge and Teresa Deevy
Works Cited
Chapter 3: “Are All the Monks Old Men?”: Ageing and the Male Monastic Community in Brian Friel’s The Enemy Within
Note
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis
Introduction
A Whistle in the Dark (1961)
On Raftery’s Hill (2000)
Cyprus Avenue (2016)
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Part II: Poetry
Chapter 5: Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities, and Ageing in Samuel Beckett’s Early Poetry Collection Echo’s Bones
Introduction
Beckett’s poetics at the “limit”: generic “in-between-ness” and the question of development
Beckett, masculinity and (Irish) modernism
Echo’s Bones : the malleability of beginnings and endings, birth and death
Male creativity and gendered movement in Echo’s Bones
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Masculinity, Ageing, and Midlife Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Paul Durcan
Introduction
Poetry, Crisis, and Mid-Life Latitudes in Paul Muldoon’s Poetry
A Middle-Aged “Male of the Species” in the Poetry of Paul Durcan
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 7: Not Sailing to Byzantium: Aged Masculinities and Latour’s Matters of Concern in the Late Works of Irish Male Poets
Notes
Works Cited
Part III: Fiction
Chapter 8: “That the Youth May Throw Us Aside”: Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction
Introduction
Fatherhood and the Politics of Paternal Masculinity
Patrilineage and Inherited Masculinity: The Case of the Considines
The Patrilineal Double Bind: Patriarchal Anxiety and Ageing Masculinity
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Stuck in the Old Times: A Male-character Analysis on Three Irish Novels Through Corpus Stylistics 1
Introduction
Methodology
Results and Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville’s The Sea, Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture and Anne Griffin’s When All Is Said
Introduction
Uncanny Reflections: Mirrors, Masks, and Life Review
John Banville, The Sea
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Anne Griffin, When All Is Said
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 11: “Caught Suddenly by the Land Shifting”: Ageing Masculinity and Rural Ireland in Recent Irish Short Fiction
The Weight of Tradition
Ailing and Acceptance
A Damaged Inheritance?: Young and Ageing Masculinity
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 12: “A Bridge to Nowhere”: Arrested Development, Trauma, Liminality, and the Ageing Irish Exile in Bernard MacLaverty’s Midwinter Break
Introduction
Arrested Development
“Irish”
Stella
Conclusion
Note
Works Cited
Chapter 13: “Shades of Masculinity”: Midlife and Caring Masculinity in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
The Middle Years
Fathers and Sons: Generational Rites, Rhythms, and Rituals
Amongst Women
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 14: Colm Tóibín and Henry James: Portrait of an Ageing Master
Works Cited
Part IV: Visual Culture
Chapter 15: Seán Keating’s Ireland: The Land of Old Men
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Ageing Masculinities and Irish Traditional Music on Screen
Introduction
Irish Traditional Music on Screen
Noel Hill–Aisling Ghéar and Slán Leis an gCeol–Farewell to Music
Virility and Vulnerability
Masculinity, the Past, and Irish Traditional Music
Sounds of Masculinity and Nostalgia
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 17: Changing the Picture: Older Men’s Responses to Media Representations of Ageing in an Irish Context
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Findings
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Ethical Standards
Notes
Works Cited
Index