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The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Madalina Armie
The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty first Century Book PDF

Author : Madalina Armie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1032308257

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The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century by Madalina Armie Pdf

"In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the 'best of times'. The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world's economic powers. During the boom, dissident voices continuously criticised what they considered to be a mirage, identifying the precariousness of its structures and foretelling its eventual crash. The 2008 recession proved them right. Throughout this time, the Irish contemporary short story expressed distrust. Enabled by its capacity to reflect change with immediacy and dexterity, the short story saw through the smokescreen created by the Celtic Tiger discourse of well-being. It reinterpreted and captured the worst and the best of the country and became a bridge connecting tradition and modernity. The major objective of this book is to analyse the interactions between fiction and reality during this period in Ireland by studying short stories written by old and emergent voices published between the birth of the Celtic Tiger in 1995 up to its immediate aftermath in 2013"--

The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Madalina Armie
The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty First Century Book PDF

Author : Madalina Armie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000801972

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The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Madalina Armie Pdf

In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world’s economic powers. During the boom, dissident voices continuously criticised what they considered to be a mirage, identifying the precariousness of its structures and foretelling its eventual crash. The 2008 recession proved them right. Throughout this time, the Irish contemporary short story expressed distrust. Enabled by its capacity to reflect change with immediacy and dexterity, the short story saw through the smokescreen created by the Celtic Tiger discourse of well-being. It reinterpreted and captured the worst and the best of the country and became a bridge connecting tradition and modernity. The major objective of this book is to analyse the interactions between fiction and reality during this period in Ireland by studying the short stories written by old and emergent voices published between the birth of the Celtic Tiger in 1995 up to its immediate aftermath in 2013.

Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

Madalina Armie,Veronica Membrive
Trauma Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature Book PDF

Author : Madalina Armie,Veronica Membrive
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000832143

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Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature by Madalina Armie,Veronica Membrive Pdf

This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond. These artistic manifestations connect tradition and modernity, debunk myths, break the silence with the exposure of uncomfortable realities, dismantle stereotypes and reflect reality with precision. Women’s issues and female experiences depicted in contemporary fiction may provide an explanation for past and present gender dynamics, revealing a pathway for further renegotiation of gender roles and the achievement of equilibrium and equality between sexes. These works might help to seal and heal wounds both old and new and offer solutions to the quandaries of tomorrow.

Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English

Anonim
Modernism Postmodernism and the Short Story in English Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208321

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Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English by Anonim Pdf

How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre’s theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both “movements” such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, otherness, representation, and, above all, the subject and its vicissitudes. Because it blends theory-based arguments into the approaches to the short fiction of mainly canonical authors (Joyce, Woolf, Lewis, Ballard, Carter, Rushdie, or Wallace), Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English is of interest not only to readers and scholars of the short story, but also to those coming from the fields of literary theory and literary history.

A History of the Irish Short Story

Heather Ingman
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Author : Heather Ingman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139474122

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A History of the Irish Short Story by Heather Ingman Pdf

Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, this text was the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather Ingman traces the development of the modern short story in Ireland from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Her study analyses the material circumstances surrounding publication, examining the role of magazines and editors in shaping the form. Ingman incorporates recent critical thinking on the short story, traces international connections, and gives a central part to Irish women's short stories. Each chapter concludes with a detailed analysis of key stories from the period discussed, featuring Joyce, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern, among others. With its comprehensive bibliography and biographies of authors, this volume will be a key work of reference for scholars and students both of Irish fiction and of the modern short story as a genre.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel

Ian Tan
Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Book PDF

Author : Ian Tan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003826620

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel by Ian Tan Pdf

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-American modernism, and how aesthetic re-imagining can be possible in the aftermath of the destruction of certainties and literary tradition heralded by postmodern practice and metatextual consciousness. It is this book’s argument that intertextual influences flowing from Stevens’s poetry towards the vitality of the novelistic imagination enact robust dialectical exchanges between existential chaos and artistic order, contemporary form and poetic precursors. Through readings of novels by important contemporary Irish novelists John Banville, Colum McCann, Ed O’Loughlin, Iris Murdoch, and Emma Donoghue, this book contemporizes Stevens’s literary influence with refence to novelistic style, themes, and thematic preoccupations that stake the claim for the international status of the contemporary Irish novel as it shapes a new understanding of “world literature” as exchange between national languages, cultures, and alternative formulations of aesthetic modernity as continuing project.

Irish Theatre

Eamonn Jordan
Irish Theatre Book PDF

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000926279

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Irish Theatre by Eamonn Jordan Pdf

This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance; wealth acquisition; employment conditions; educational access; intercultural encounters; sexual intimacy and violation; and acts of resistance, protest and solidarity. This book addresses complex intergenerational, intercultural, racial, sectarian, ethnic, gender and inter- and intraclass dynamics from the perspective of ranked, objectifying, exploitative and coercive relationships but also in terms of commonalities, complicities, reciprocations and retaliations. Notable are the significances of wealth precarity and shaming; the consequences of anti-materialistic dramaturgical leanings; the pathologising of success; the fraught nature of solidarity; and the problematics of merit, divisive partitioning and muddled mésalliances. Ultimately the book wonders about how Irish theatre distinguishes between tolerable and intolerable inequalities that are culturally and socially but principally economically derived.

Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature

Cassandra S. Tully de Lope
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Author : Cassandra S. Tully de Lope
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003857426

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Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature by Cassandra S. Tully de Lope Pdf

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology. The study of language performance through literary analysis and corpus studies will enable readers to approach literary texts from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, to take advantage of the texts’ full potential as well as examining these same texts through the perspective of gender identity. This will be carried out through a specialised corpus composed of 18 novels written by twentieth- and twenty-first-century male Irish authors. Thus, the language and behaviour patterns of contemporary Irish masculinity can be found as part of these male characters’ performance of identity. This book is primarily aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who wish to introduce themselves in the study of gender and identity in an Irish context as well as researchers looking for interdisciplinary methodologies of study. What is more, it can present researchers with varied options of analysis that corpus studies have not yet touched upon so thoroughly such as masculinity and Irish literature. As a monograph meant to show analysts new fields of study in Irish literature, this book will sell to academic libraries and can be used in MA courses.

John McGahern

John Singleton
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Author : John Singleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000996753

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John McGahern by John Singleton Pdf

John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’, examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops, what effects such developments have on the work’s forms and how these forms evolve, at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGahern’s literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years, research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a ‘traditional’ literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGahern’s work, with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house, the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGahern’s literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic, vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social, cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively.

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

Edward J. O’Shea
Seamus Heaney s American Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Edward J. O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000816648

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Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey by Edward J. O’Shea Pdf

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney’s appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaney’s readings “on the road” at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes “the heard Heaney” as much as the “writerly Heaney” by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testify to his mentoring as well as modeling for them how one can be “a poet in the world” as he was most strikingly.

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking

Ian Hickey,Ellen Howley
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Author : Ian Hickey,Ellen Howley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000867350

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Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking by Ian Hickey,Ellen Howley Pdf

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses. They reveal how Heaney adopts a demiurgic role throughout his career, creating a poetic universe that draws on diverse mythic cycles from Greco-Roman to Irish and Norse to Native American. In doing so, this collection is in dialogue with recent work on Heaney’s engagement with myth. However, it is unique in its wide-ranging perspective, extending beyond Ancient and Classical influences. In its focus on Heaney’s personal metamorphosis of several mythic cycles, this collection reveals more fully the poet’s unique approach to mythmaking, from his engagement with the act of translation to transnational influences on his work and from his poetic transformations to the poetry’s boundary-crossing transitions. Combining the work of established Heaney scholars with the perspectives of early-career researchers, this collection contains a wealth of original scholarship that reveals Heaney’s expansive mythic mind. Mythmaking, an act for which Heaney has faced severe criticism, is reconsidered by all contributors, prompting multifaceted and nuanced readings of the poet’s work.

Learning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments

Santamaría Urbieta, Alexandra,Alcalde Peñalver, Elena
Learning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments Book PDF

Author : Santamaría Urbieta, Alexandra,Alcalde Peñalver, Elena
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668460825

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Learning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments by Santamaría Urbieta, Alexandra,Alcalde Peñalver, Elena Pdf

Teachers, professors, and educational professionals have the opportunity to create new, challenging, significant, and interactive learning experiences for today’s students. Escape rooms are growing in popularity as they provide numerous benefits and opportunities for learning; however, the use of escape rooms in higher education is not always taken seriously. Learning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments proves that it is possible to take escape rooms to higher education with great results for both teachers and students by presenting different escape room proposals that are explained in detail with the instructions and materials used so that any teacher could replicate it in their subject. Covering key topics such as online learning, student learning, and computer science, this reference work is ideal for principals, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Reading Paul Howard

Eugene O'Brien
Reading Paul Howard Book PDF

Author : Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003822332

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Reading Paul Howard by Eugene O'Brien Pdf

Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour, in Howard’s texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture, and will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida to critique this division, building a theoretical platform from which to examine the significance of Howard’s work as an Irish comic and satirical writer. Addressing both the style and the substance of his work, this text locates him in a tradition of Irish satirical writing that dates back to the Gaelic bards, and includes writers like Swift, Wilde, Flann O’Brien and Joyce. Through textual and contextual analysis, this book makes the case for Howard as a significant and original voice in Irish writing, whose fusion of the three traditional types of satire (Horatian, Juvenalian and Menippean), has created a parallel Ireland that shines a satirical light on its real counterpart. As Freud suggests, humour is a way of accessing aspects of the psyche that normative discourses cannot enunciate, and Howard, through the confessional voice of Ross, offers a fictive truth on twenty years of Irish society, a truth that is not accessed by discourse in the public sphere or by what could be termed literary or high cultural fiction.

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

Edward T. Duffy
The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney s Poetry Book PDF

Author : Edward T. Duffy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003853718

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The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry by Edward T. Duffy Pdf

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry is a critical study of the poet's later work. While exploring his practice as a translator, it also traces his increasing preoccupation with the possibilities and conditions of translation in the theological sense of being lifted up in spirit. To the work of this philosophical poet, who would be both “earthed and heady” this book brings the insights of ordinary language philosophy as practiced by Stanley Cavell. It devotes separate chapters to Station Island and three later collections: Seeing Things, Electric Light and Human Chain. The first of these addresses the most fundamental change in Heaney’s life when he acknowledges the “need and chance to re-envisage” his Irish-Catholic upbringing; it is also replete with both the activity and the trope of translation. Published seven years later, Seeing Things begins with a translation of Virgil’s golden bough episode and ends with a similar crossing over into the underworld by Dante. Heaney transforms both into poems about poetry. In Electric Light, Heaney returns to Virgil, but now he concentrates not on the hero of the Aeneid but on Virgil's earlier efforts in pastoral, a mode of writing that Heaney takes as a model for his own time and place of “devastated order.” Heaney returns to the Aeneid in Human Chain, but this time around he gives all his attention to the scene of the human souls in Elysium seeking rebirth and turns it into an image for the need and chance of pronouncing “a final Yes” to our world and our place in it.

Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines

Ciol?neanu, Roxana,Marinescu, Roxana-Elisabeta
Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines Book PDF

Author : Ciol?neanu, Roxana,Marinescu, Roxana-Elisabeta
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799864608

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Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines by Ciol?neanu, Roxana,Marinescu, Roxana-Elisabeta Pdf

Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and possibly reinterpret old women-related myths and other taken-for-granted aspects (e.g., grammatically inclusive gender). Moreover, this approach can better place the ideologies as myth creators and propagators, identify and deconstruct stereotypes and prejudices, and compare them across cultures with the view to spot universal vs. culturally specific approaches as far as women's studies and interpretations are concerned. It is important to gather these perspectives to translate and unveil new interpretations to old ideas about women and the feminine that are universally accepted as absolute, impossible to challenge, and invalidated truths. The Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines is a comprehensive reference book that provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on the perception and reception of women across time and space. It tackles various perspectives: gender studies, linguistic studies, literature and cultural studies, discourse analysis, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc. Its main objective is to present new approaches and propose new answers to old questions related to gender inequalities, stereotypes, and prejudices about women and their place in the world. Covering significant themes that include the ethics of embodiment, myth of motherhood at the crossroad of ideologies, translation of women’s experiences and ideas across cultures, and discourses on women’s rehabilitation and dignification across centuries, this book is critical for linguists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literature, as well as other related categories such as political studies, education studies, philosophy, and the social sciences.