1st Edition
The Writings of Padraic Colum ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’
Introduction: ‘With my words, with my words’
PÁDRAIC WHYTE AND KEITH O’SULLIVAN
Chapter 1 Padraic Colum, Playwright
CHRIS MORASH
Chapter 2 Folklore, Politics, and the Politics of Folklore
EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN
Chapter 3 Colum’s Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism
TOM WALKER
Chapter 4 ‘As a Saga and Not as Separate Pieces’: Simultaneity and Padraic Colum’s 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 Colum’s Short Stories
ANINDITA BHATTACHARYA
Chapter 8 Padraic Colum: An Irish Immigrant Voice in American Children’s Literature
MÉABH NÍ CHOILEÁIN
Chapter 9 Framing the Poetic Landscape of Padraic Colum’s The Golden Fleece
KEITH O’SULLIVAN AND MAX BARRETT
Chapter 10 Rewriting Buile Suibhne: Storytelling and The Frenzied Prince
PÁDRAIC WHYTE
Biography
Pádraic Whyte is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MPhil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fulbright scholar whose publications include the co-edited volume Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), which won the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Edited Book Award, 2019.
Keith O’Sullivan is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, Dublin City University. He is also deputy chair of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature programme and co-director of the Centre for Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. He is a co-principal investigator on the Creative Europe G-Book projects (www.g-book.eu).
