Silence And Articulacy In The Poetry Of Medbh Mcguckian

Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793607072

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Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem Pdf

Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian is an innovative contribution to the scholarship on Belfast poet, Medbh McGuckian. This book considers the entire oeuvre of this globally respected Irish woman writer, a member of the contemporary avant-garde with now fifteen (U.S. published) volumes and numerous individual publications. The author positions McGuckian’s oeuvre as political and historical poetry and offers a provocative new assessment of its crafted silences. This work argues that it is the muted character of McGuckian’s poems—a consequence of a defamiliarized language, the overwhelming sway of the image, and a profusion of intertextual quoting—that constitutes their agency and force. The silences are read as a response to the precarious positionality of poet and speaker at the site of “disaster” and the limits of articulacy. In line with Rukeyser’s notion of the life of poetry, the life of McGuckian's silences is located, Fadem argues, in the poems’ production, as revealed self-reflexively, and in their prolonged consumption. This oeuvre operates as a formidable counter-discourse by converting poetry's reception into a much protracted task that redistributes the temporal economy of poem and reader and disrupts the given structures of time, place, and the order of things.

Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000213775

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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved" by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem Pdf

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is...” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations. This book is freely available to read at https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#

Author : Kyle Wiggins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319937465

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American Revenge Narratives by Kyle Wiggins Pdf

American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation’s vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre’s contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nation’s political, social, and economic inequities. The volume’s essays collectively make the case that retribution is a defining theme of post-war American culture and an artistic vehicle for critique. In another sense, this book presents a scholarly coming to terms with the nation’s love for vengeance. By investigating recent iterations of an ancient genre, contributors explore how the revenge narrative evolves and thrives within American literary and filmic imagination. Taken together, the book’s diverse chapters attempt to understand American culture’s seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.

Author : Susan Liddy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1782053735

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Women in the Irish Film Industry by Susan Liddy Pdf

Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Women in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Revisiting the Past -- Ellen O'Mara Sullivan and Her Role in Early Irish Cinema -- Díóg O'connell -- Feminist Reclamation Politics: Reclaiming Maeve (1981) and Mother Ireland (1988) -- Sarah Edge -- Practitioners and Production Culture -- 'Where Are the Women?' Exploring perceptions of a gender order in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Irish Production Cultures and Women Filmmakers: Nicky Gogan -- Laura Canning -- Women Cinematographers and Changing Irish Production Cultures -- Maeve Connolly -- A Cut Above: In conversation with Emer Reynolds -- Susan Liddy -- Documenting Documentary: Liberated enclave or pink ghetto? -- Anne O'brien -- Changing the Conversation: Education, celebration and collaboration -- Educating Gráinne: The role of education in promoting gender equality in the Irish film industry -- Annie Doona -- Activism through Celebration: The role of the Dublin Feminist Film Festival in supporting women in Irish film, 2014-17 -- Karla Healion, Aileen O'driscoll, Jennifer O'meara, Katie Stone -- What If We Had Been the Heroes of the Maze and Long Kesh? Collaborative filmmaking in Northern Ireland -- Laura Aguiar -- Text and Context: Documentary, fiction and animation -- Dearbhla Glynn: Documenting war and sexual violence -- Eileen Culloty -- Pat Murphy: Portrait of an artist as a filmmaker -- Lance Pettitt -- Juanita Wilson: A crusading Irish filmmaker -- Isabelle Le Corff -- Irish Cinema and the Gendering of Space: Motherhood, domesticity and the homeplace -- Ruth Barton -- Authority to Speak: Assessing the progress of gender parity and representation in Irish animation -- Ciara Barrett -- Conclusion.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654674

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Fine Meshwork by Dan O'Brien Pdf

In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, including, most illuminatingly, Roth’s. Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Roth and O’Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In Fine Meshwork, Dan O’Brien investigates the shared concerns of these two authors, now regarded as literary icons in their home countries. He traces their fifty-year literary friendship and the striking parallels in their books and reception, bringing together what, at first glance, seem to be quite disparate milieus: the largely feminist and Irish scholarship on O’Brien with Jewish and American perspectives on Roth. In doing so, and in considering them in a transnational context, he argues that the intertwined nature of their writing symbolizes the far-ranging symbiosis between Irish literature and its American—particularly Jewish American—counterpart.

Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem,Michael O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000293852

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The Economics of Empire by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem,Michael O'Sullivan Pdf

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire. This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern history. One of the first attempts to take this approach in postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal relation—a symbiotic "phoresy"—between capitalism and colonialism, reading them as linked structures that carried and sustained each other through and across the modern era. The scholars represented here are all postcolonial critics working in a range of disciplines, including Political Science, Sociology, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism, exploring the connections between empire and capital, and the historical and political implications of that structural hinge. Each author engages existing postcolonial and poststructuralist theory and criticism while bridging it over to research and analytic lenses less frequently engaged by postcolonial critics. In so doing, they devise novel intersectional and interdisciplinary frameworks through which to produce more greatly nuanced understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable relation, "new" postcolonial critiques of empire for the twenty-first century. This book will be an excellent resource for students and researchers of Postcolonial Studies, Literature, History, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and International Studies, among others.

Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032813712

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The Flower Master and Other Poems by Medbh McGuckian Pdf

Updated, 1993 edition from one of Ireland's finest woman poets

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OCLC:80022171

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The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Author : M. Ruprecht Fadem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137466235

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The Literature of Northern Ireland by M. Ruprecht Fadem Pdf

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary.

Author : Medbh McGuckian
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010500465

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Venus and the Rain by Medbh McGuckian Pdf

Author : Anders Ahlqvist,Fergus Kelly,Patricia Kelly,Kim R. McCone,Damian McManus,Rory McTurk,Joseph Falaky Nagy,Ruairí Ó hUiginn,M. Katharine Simms,Liam Breatnach,Pádraig A. Breatnach,Morgan T. Davies,Aidan Doyle,Charlene M. Eska,Hugh Fogarty,William Gillies,Barbara Hillers,Sìm Innes,Aled Llion Jones,Catherine McKenna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478358

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Ollam by Anders Ahlqvist,Fergus Kelly,Patricia Kelly,Kim R. McCone,Damian McManus,Rory McTurk,Joseph Falaky Nagy,Ruairí Ó hUiginn,M. Katharine Simms,Liam Breatnach,Pádraig A. Breatnach,Morgan T. Davies,Aidan Doyle,Charlene M. Eska,Hugh Fogarty,William Gillies,Barbara Hillers,Sìm Innes,Aled Llion Jones,Catherine McKenna Pdf

Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy. The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill. This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.

Author : Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793635471

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Arthur Machen by Antonio Sanna Pdf

Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.

Author : Alexander G. Gonzalez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313060298

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Irish Women Writers by Alexander G. Gonzalez Pdf

Irish women writers have a large following, and their works are attracting large amounts of scholarly and critical attention. Through roughly 75 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 35 expert contributors, this reference overviews the lives and works of Irish women writers active in a range of genres and periods. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and a list of works by and about the author. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Ireland has an especially lively literary tradition, and works by Irish writers have long been recognized as interesting and influential. While male writers have received the bulk of the critical attention given to Irish literature, contemporary women writers are among the most widely read Irish authors. This reference overviews the lives and works of Irish women writers active in a range of periods and genres. Included are roughly 75 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 35 expert contributors. Among the writers discussed are: ; Elizabeth Bowen ; Mary Dorcey ; Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory ; Anne Hartigan ; Norah Hoult ; Paula Meehan ; Iris Murdoch ; Edna O'Brien ; Katharine Tynan ; Sheila Wingfield ; And many more. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the writer's critical reception, and a list of works by and about the writer. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Peter Craft
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683933090

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Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652–1771 by Peter Craft Pdf

Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American “Indians” in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different “Indian” stereotypes.

Author : Jason D. Martinek,Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930747

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Teaching William Morris by Jason D. Martinek,Elizabeth Carolyn Miller Pdf

A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William Morris. Across this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” and “Digital Humanities”—readers will learn the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and how this pedagogical effort is reaching well beyond the college classroom.