"This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881-1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adultsand children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum's work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his children's and adult texts"--
This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum ((1881 1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore.
This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum ((1881 1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum's work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his childrens and adult texts.
Introduction: With My Words, with My Words
PĮDRAIC WHYTE AND KEITH OSULLIVAN
Chapter 1 Padraic Colum, Playwright
CHRIS MORASH
Chapter 2 Folklore, Politics, and the Politics of Folklore
EILÉAN NĶ CHUILLEANĮIN
Chapter 3 Colums Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism
TOM WALKER
Chapter 4 As a Saga and Not as Separate Pieces: Simultaneity and Padraic
Colums Poetry
JENNIFER MOONEY
Chapter 5 Plutarch Lied: Padraic Colum and the Biographical Subject
MARGARET KELLEHER
Chapter 6 Occasional, Even Casual: Padraic Colum, Legacy Curation, and
Short Fiction
PAUL DELANEY
Chapter 7 Materialism, Commodification, and Alienation in Padraic Colums
Short Stories
ANINDITA BHATTACHARYA
Chapter 8 Padraic Colum: An Irish Immigrant Voice in American Childrens
Literature
MÉABH NĶ CHOILEĮIN
Chapter 9 Framing the Poetic Landscape of Padraic Colums The Golden Fleece
KEITH OSULLIVAN AND MAX BARRETT
Chapter 10 Rewriting Buile Suibhne: Storytelling and The Frenzied Prince
PĮDRAIC WHYTE
Pįdraic Whyte is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MPhil programme in Childrens Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fulbright scholar whose publications include the co-edited volume Childrens Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), which won the International Research Society for Childrens Literature Edited Book Award, 2019.
Keith OSullivan is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, Dublin City University. He is also deputy chair of the MA in Childrens and Young Adult Literature programme and co-director of the Centre for Research in Childrens and Young Adult Literature. He is a co-principal investigator on the Creative Europe G-Book projects (www.g-book.eu).
