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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).

Klappentext

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.

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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