What Rough Beasts Irish And Scottish Studies In The New Millennium

Author : Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443802215

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What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium by Shane Alcobia-Murphy Pdf

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research papers which investigate key literary and historical issues in Irish and Scottish Studies, providing a view onto the range of current research interests both within and across the two disciplines. From a selection of papers presented at an AHRC-sponsored conference held at the University of Aberdeen, the volume showcases original material by both emergent and established scholars. Opening up illuminating conversations between often diverse areas of study, this book covers issues including: poetry and violence; film and drama; history and historiography; ethnography and literature; the politics of representation.

Author : Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654339

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Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan Pdf

The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the past, so too have Irish authors evolved in their response to, and literary uses of, trauma. In Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel, Costello-Sullivan considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and cultural force, but also how this representation has shifted since the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. While earlier trauma narratives center predominantly on the role of silence and the individual and/or societal suffering that traumas induce, twenty-first-century Irish narratives increasingly turn from just the recognition of traumatic experiences toward exploring and representing the process of healing and recovery both structurally and narratively. Through a series of keenly observed close readings, Costello-Sullivan explores the work of Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Anne Enright, Emma Donohue, Colum McCann, and Sebastian Barry. In highlighting the power of narrative to amend and address memory and trauma, Costello-Sullivan argues that these works reflect a movement beyond merely representing trauma toward also representing the possibility of recovery from it.

Author : Emily Mark-FitzGerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781381694

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Commemorating the Irish Famine by Emily Mark-FitzGerald Pdf

'Commemorating the Irish Famine' explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present.

Author : Niall Whelehan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479809554

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Changing Land by Niall Whelehan Pdf

"Changing Land explores how the Irish Land War inspired multifaceted activism among Irish emigrants in the United States, Argentina, Scotland and England, and how diaspora activism intersected with transnational radical and reform causes"--

Author : Claire Bracken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317451341

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Irish Feminist Futures by Claire Bracken Pdf

This book is about the future: Ireland’s future and feminism’s future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Ireland’s economic, demographic, and social structures underwent significant alteration. Conceptions of the future are powerfully prevalent in women’s cultural production in the Tiger era, where it surfaces as a form of temporality that is open to surprise, change, and the unknown. Examining a range of literary and filmic texts, Irish Feminist Futures analyzes how futurity structures representations of the feminine self in women’s cultural practice. Relationally connected and affectively open, these representations of self enable sustained engagements with questions of gender, race, sexuality, and class as they pertain to the material, social, and cultural realities of Celtic Tiger Ireland. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, Irish feminist criticism, sociology, cultural studies, literature, women's studies, gender studies, neo-materialist and feminist theories.

Author : Maria McGarrity
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003857617

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Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime by Maria McGarrity Pdf

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland’s artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature. A concern for and anxiety about the primitive persists within modern Irish culture. The “otherness” within and beyond Ireland’s borders offers writers, from the Celtic Revival through independence and partition to post-9/11, a seductive call through which to negotiate Irish identity. Ultimately, the disquieting awe of the primitive sublime is not simply a momentary recognition of Ireland’s primitive indigenous history but a repeated rhetorical gesture that beckons a transcendent elation brought about by the recognition of the troubled, ritualistic and sacrificial Irish past to reveal a fundamental aspect of the capacity to negotiate identity, viewed through another but intimately reflective of the self, within the long emerging twentieth-century Irish nation.

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441132963

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Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland's leading-and most prolific-contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on MacLaverty. Covering all of his novels and many of his short stories, the book explores the ways in which the author has grappled with such themes as The Troubles, the Holocaust, Catholicism, and music. Bernard MacLaverty: Critical Readings also includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.

Author : Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137585882

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance by Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz Pdf

This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze back across the past sixty years or so to recall, analyse, and assess the recent legacy of theatre and performance on this island. While offering information, overviews and reflections of current thought across its chapters, this book will serve most handily as food for thought and a springboard for curiosity. Offering something different in its mix of themes and perspectives, so that previously unexamined surfaces might come to light individually and in conjunction with other essays, it is a wide-ranging and indispensable resource in Irish theatre studies.

Author : Borbála Faragó
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485646

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Medbh McGuckian by Borbála Faragó Pdf

This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies on the basis of new research. The book investigatesa variety of previously neglected themes, in particular McGuckian’s exploration of ideas of creativity and performativity in her poetry. Over the past two decades McGuckian has been recognized by both her fellow poets and by literary critics as one of the most original, daring and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland. Since 1982 she has published fifteen volumes of poetry, extraordinary not merely for its sustained quality and linguistic and technical virtuosity, but also for its constant evolution and reinvention. This book provides an original perspective on her work both thematically and methodologically. From a thematic perspective, the process of artistic creation is a key preoccupation of McGuckian’s poetry which recurs in every volume of her oeuvre but has previously escaped critical attention. By adapting and refining theories of singularity and creativity, the book allows for a coherent analysis of this central aspect of McGuckian’s work. Methodologically it differs from previous studies in the scope of its approach. Uniquely, it pursues its investigation across the entire breadth of the poet’s published output and emphasizes the thematic unity of individual volumes in the light of the poet’s constant change and development. Throughout the book, the reading of McGuckian’s work concentrates on poems in their entirety, an approach which has not figured to any notable degree in the existing secondary literature on the poet, not least because of the perceived difficulty of her writing. A critical investigation, however, which respects both the integrity of the individual poems and the internal coherence of her various volumes allows for a far deeper understanding both of the poet’s thematic preoccupations and of the evolution of her distinctive poetic voice.

Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408136126

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The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh by Patrick Lonergan Pdf

Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating analysis of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his stage plays and the films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for students and practitioners it is unrivalled, providing an authoritative and enquiring approach to his work that moves beyond the tired discussions of national identity to offer a comprehensive critical exploration. Patrick Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of each of his plays and films, their original staging, critical reception, and the connections within and between the Leenane Trilogy, the Aran Islands plays and more recent work. It includes an interview with Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company, and offers four critical essays on key features of McDonagh's work by leading international scholars: Joan Dean, Eamonn Jordan, Jose Lanters and Karen O'Brien. A series of further resources including a chronology, glossary, notes on McDonagh's use of language and a list of further reading makes this the perfect companion to one of the most exciting dramatists writing today.

Author : Sian Beynon-Jones,Emily Grabham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351683746

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Law and Time by Sian Beynon-Jones,Emily Grabham Pdf

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerge and have effects within wider clusters of social and political action. Themes include: law’s diverse roles in maintaining linear historicist models of time; law’s participation in the materialisation of times; and the unsteady effects of temporal pluralism and polytemporalities in law. De-naturalising the ‘time’ in law and time scholarship, this collection positions time as something that can be enacted and materialised as well as experienced, with distinct implications for questions of social justice.

Author : Diego Saglia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426411

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European Literatures in Britain, 18–15–1832: Romantic Translations by Diego Saglia Pdf

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Author : Carmen Bugan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351191890

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Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation by Carmen Bugan Pdf

"Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from his troubled times. Add to this a deep love for and commitment to the Irish and English poetic traditions, and a strong desire to search for models outside his culture, and you have the poetry of the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-). In this study, Carmen Bugan looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Zbigniew Herbert, as he aimed to fulfil a Horatian poetics, a poetry meant to both instruct and delight its readers. Carmen Bugan is the author of a collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, and a memoir, Burying the Typewriter."

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781441184214

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The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Charles A. Carpenter Pdf

Author : Charlotte Macdonald
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781877242632

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A Woman of Good Character by Charlotte Macdonald Pdf

Between the 1840s and 1880s, thousands of young single women came to New Zealand as assisted migrants from Britain and Ireland. In this detailed study of forgotten lives, Charlotte Macdonald highlights the experiences and identities of a vitally important migrant group, one previously overshadowed by the stories of gold diggers, pastoralists, soldiers, adventurers and agricultural labourers. Macdonald, a pioneer of research into women’s history, brings a new perspective on New Zealand’s European settlement. Her compelling study will appeal to anyone seeking to investigate the origins of contemporary New Zealand identity.