Outputs (34)

On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique (2024)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2024). On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique. In C. I. Armstrong, A. Paterson, & T. Walker (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

In mid-1936, while writing ‘Lapis Lazuli’, W. B. Yeats was finalising his controversial selections for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936). He was also pronouncing upon a significant generational trend towards ‘difficult’ poetry. As he suggested i... Read More about On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique.

The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety (2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety. Modernism/modernity, 31(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2024.a935443

The focus of this article is the world's first mathematical weather forecast by Lewis Fry Richardson, published in 1922. In a counter-archival and anti-historical move, Richardson's work argues for the "disaggregation" of the future from the past. Th... Read More about The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety.

Clickbait Modernism (2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). Clickbait Modernism. Textual Practice, 38(1), 84-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2287357

Over recent years, terms such as autofiction, postcritique and postfiction have been repurposed to designate a moment in the history of the novel, and in culture more broadly, to do with the distribution of narrative authority. These terms have also... Read More about Clickbait Modernism.

Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2023). Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature. In M. Kelleher, & J. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (83-98). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009182881.007

Ireland was in a rush to embrace electrification in the 1930s and 1940s, as it was digitalisation in the post-Celtic Tiger age of Yahoo and Google. In the face of this state-led dedication to light and currency, Irish literature has consistently foun... Read More about Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature.

Laughter Before the Law: Censorship, Caricature and Hunger strike in Modern Irish Literature and Art (2022)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2022). Laughter Before the Law: Censorship, Caricature and Hunger strike in Modern Irish Literature and Art. In A. Hanna, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Law and Literature: the Irish Case (59-77). Liverpool University Press

Translation at the Abbey Theatre in 1913: the World Premier of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office (2022)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2022). Translation at the Abbey Theatre in 1913: the World Premier of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office. In A. Ghosh, & E. Redwine (Eds.), Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning (40-60). Brill Academic Publishers

Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style (2022)
Journal Article
Robinson, R., & Sheils, B. (2022). Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510

This essay sets the parameters of this special issue on the contemporary problem of style. Noting that the critical term style has returned to discursive prominence in recent years, the introduction explores the peculiarity of its status in literary... Read More about Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style.

Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner (2022)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2022). Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner. Textual Practice, 36(4), 518-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2055284

Style emerged into discursive prominence in nineteenth-century Europe at the same time as the classical symptoms of hysteria were given new impetus by neurologists and psychoanalysts. Later, when the Post-War architecture of late capitalism seemed to... Read More about Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner.

Irish Skin: the Epidermiology of Modernism (2021)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2021). Irish Skin: the Epidermiology of Modernism. In P. Fagan, J. Greaney, & T. Radak (Eds.), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (87-102). Bloomsbury

Institutions and Elegies: viewing the dead in W.B. Yeats and John Wieners (2020)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B., & Walsh, J. (2020). Institutions and Elegies: viewing the dead in W.B. Yeats and John Wieners. In W. Wang, D. Jerrigan, & N. Murphy (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature (190-206). Routledge

In this chapter we ask how poetic elegy encodes the modern institutional spaces of dying. But rather than visiting the hospital ward, we consider this at one remove, from the perspective of another modern institution where the aesthetic, natural-scie... Read More about Institutions and Elegies: viewing the dead in W.B. Yeats and John Wieners.