Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
Starting from Myles’ playful advertisement of book-handling services, the paper explores O’Brien’s/Myles’ systematic recycling, rewriting and inscribing of modernist texts and narrative devices, imbricated with the featuring of second-hand and repurposed objects. I argue for a provocative self-posit...
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2024-03-01
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| description | Starting from Myles’ playful advertisement of book-handling services, the paper explores O’Brien’s/Myles’ systematic recycling, rewriting and inscribing of modernist texts and narrative devices, imbricated with the featuring of second-hand and repurposed objects. I argue for a provocative self-positioning of Flann’s/Myles’ texts and their recasting of modernist authorship and the authority of the author in the context of the increasing relevance, and ever faster obsolescence, of commodity culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The collage/assemblage of texts belonging to different genres, ages, languages and aesthetics is situated at the interface between Handlung with its corollary, the ethos of productivity, and handling, reuse and repurposing, at an ironic angle to the modernist slogan, “make it new”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b30c71bf537d48da885bd57a69848f4e2024-03-13T11:33:53ZengAsociación Española de Estudios IrlandesesEstudios Irlandeses1699-311X2024-03-01191914015312521Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-BirdsErika Mihálycsa0 Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Starting from Myles’ playful advertisement of book-handling services, the paper explores O’Brien’s/Myles’ systematic recycling, rewriting and inscribing of modernist texts and narrative devices, imbricated with the featuring of second-hand and repurposed objects. I argue for a provocative self-positioning of Flann’s/Myles’ texts and their recasting of modernist authorship and the authority of the author in the context of the increasing relevance, and ever faster obsolescence, of commodity culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The collage/assemblage of texts belonging to different genres, ages, languages and aesthetics is situated at the interface between Handlung with its corollary, the ethos of productivity, and handling, reuse and repurposing, at an ironic angle to the modernist slogan, “make it new”.https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/19_2024_Erika-Mihalycsa_17_03_EI_2.pdfflann o’brienlate modernismnew materialismstuff theoryrewriting |
| spellingShingle | Erika Mihálycsa Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds Estudios Irlandeses flann o’brien late modernism new materialism stuff theory rewriting |
| title | Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds |
| title_full | Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds |
| title_fullStr | Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds |
| title_short | Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse and Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds |
| title_sort | diminishing the authorial footprint objects and texts of reuse and refuse in flann o brien s at swim two birds |
| topic | flann o’brien late modernism new materialism stuff theory rewriting |
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