Author: Ruth Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The 'New Voices' series has established itself as the principal forum for presenting the best work by emerging scholars of Irish literature and culture in Ireland today.
New Voices in Irish Criticism 5
Author: Ruth Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The 'New Voices' series has established itself as the principal forum for presenting the best work by emerging scholars of Irish literature and culture in Ireland today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The 'New Voices' series has established itself as the principal forum for presenting the best work by emerging scholars of Irish literature and culture in Ireland today.
New Voices in Irish Criticism
Author: P. J. Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Providing a snapshot of the current state of Irish studies, this collection testifies that a broad range of Irish cultural activity is now being analyzed by a diversity of scholars. Topics covered include: Politics and Revival, Theorizing the Novel, New Directions in Irish Studies, Women and Fiction, Imagining Northern Ireland, Literary Journalism, and Poetry and Nation. Many of these essays will usefully contribute to ongoing debates beyond the immediate concern of Irish studies in fields such as Marxist theory, historiography, feminism, postcolonial studies, genre theory, cultural studies, and history of science.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Providing a snapshot of the current state of Irish studies, this collection testifies that a broad range of Irish cultural activity is now being analyzed by a diversity of scholars. Topics covered include: Politics and Revival, Theorizing the Novel, New Directions in Irish Studies, Women and Fiction, Imagining Northern Ireland, Literary Journalism, and Poetry and Nation. Many of these essays will usefully contribute to ongoing debates beyond the immediate concern of Irish studies in fields such as Marxist theory, historiography, feminism, postcolonial studies, genre theory, cultural studies, and history of science.
Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context
Author: Diana Villanueva Romero
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319660292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and discourses. This edited collection analyses the work of well-known Irish authors such as Beckett, Joyce and G. B. Shaw, combining new methodologies with more traditional approaches to the study of literary discourse and style. Over the course of the volume, the contributors also discuss how Irish voices are received in translation, and how marginal voices are portrayed in the Irish mediascape. This dynamic book brings together a multitude of contrasting perspectives, and is sure to appeal to students and scholars of Irish literature, migration studies, discourse analysis, traductology and dialectology.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319660292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and discourses. This edited collection analyses the work of well-known Irish authors such as Beckett, Joyce and G. B. Shaw, combining new methodologies with more traditional approaches to the study of literary discourse and style. Over the course of the volume, the contributors also discuss how Irish voices are received in translation, and how marginal voices are portrayed in the Irish mediascape. This dynamic book brings together a multitude of contrasting perspectives, and is sure to appeal to students and scholars of Irish literature, migration studies, discourse analysis, traductology and dialectology.
New Voices in Irish Criticism 3
Author: Karen Vandevelde
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The third volume in the literature series includes contributions from: Mary Burke, James Byrne, Anthony Caleshu, Heather Clark, Elke D'Hoker, Michael Flanagan, Oona Frawley, Jason Hall, Michael Jaros, Ronan Kelly, Padraig Kirwan, Heather Laird, Dymphna Lonergan, Virginia Mack, Márta Minier, Ruben Moi, Sean Moore, Katie Moylan, Catriona Ó Torna, Cristina Pascual Aransáez, Michelle Paul, Maria Power, Loredana Salis, Claire Schomp, Gerold Sedlmayr, Kersti Tarien and Desmond Traynor.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The third volume in the literature series includes contributions from: Mary Burke, James Byrne, Anthony Caleshu, Heather Clark, Elke D'Hoker, Michael Flanagan, Oona Frawley, Jason Hall, Michael Jaros, Ronan Kelly, Padraig Kirwan, Heather Laird, Dymphna Lonergan, Virginia Mack, Márta Minier, Ruben Moi, Sean Moore, Katie Moylan, Catriona Ó Torna, Cristina Pascual Aransáez, Michelle Paul, Maria Power, Loredana Salis, Claire Schomp, Gerold Sedlmayr, Kersti Tarien and Desmond Traynor.
Spiritual Wounds
Author: Síobhra Aiken
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1788551672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1788551672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.
Facing the Other
Author: Borbála Faragó
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443802999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This collection offers a multi-faceted investigation of the critical issue of the creation and place of the “Other” in Ireland. The extraordinarily rapid recent economic development of Ireland has effected a profound transformation in the island’s social and cultural life. In the process, old verities and assumptions concerning the nature of Irish society and culture have been called into question, with a whole variety of new challenges coming to light. The developments of the last two decades have transformed questions of what and who constitutes the “Other” within Irish society, but in the process older societal faultlines based on gender, disability and religious difference have not disappeared and historical processes of “Othering” continue to play a critical role in influencing and moulding the social contours of the new Ireland of the twenty-first century. Drawing on a number of different disciplinary perspectives, this collection presents a number of key analyses of social and cultural practices and policies that reflect anxieties about and negotiations of these changes, examining historical and contemporary representation of fears about the porousness of national borders; the increasing racialization of the Irish state through social and juridical proscriptions, and the popular and official narrative of ‘progress’.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443802999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This collection offers a multi-faceted investigation of the critical issue of the creation and place of the “Other” in Ireland. The extraordinarily rapid recent economic development of Ireland has effected a profound transformation in the island’s social and cultural life. In the process, old verities and assumptions concerning the nature of Irish society and culture have been called into question, with a whole variety of new challenges coming to light. The developments of the last two decades have transformed questions of what and who constitutes the “Other” within Irish society, but in the process older societal faultlines based on gender, disability and religious difference have not disappeared and historical processes of “Othering” continue to play a critical role in influencing and moulding the social contours of the new Ireland of the twenty-first century. Drawing on a number of different disciplinary perspectives, this collection presents a number of key analyses of social and cultural practices and policies that reflect anxieties about and negotiations of these changes, examining historical and contemporary representation of fears about the porousness of national borders; the increasing racialization of the Irish state through social and juridical proscriptions, and the popular and official narrative of ‘progress’.
The Irish New Woman
Author: Tina O'Toole
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137349131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137349131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.
"Celebrating Confusion"
Author: Kenneth Nally
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443803650
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443803650
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
Author: Martin Middeke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408198622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408198622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
The Female and the Species
Author: Maureen O'Connor
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039119592
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Describing the Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other 'savages' has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has been asserted in recent decades by some feminists, but linking women's rights with animal advocacy can be controversial. This strategy responds to the fact that women's inferiority has been alleged and justified by appropriating them to nature, an appropriation that colonialism has also practiced on its racial and cultural others. Nineteenth-century feminists braved such associations, for instance, often asserting vegetarianism as a form of rebellion against the dominant culture. Vegetarianism and animal advocacy have uniquely Irish implications. This study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying the 'natural' as a gesture of resistance to paternalist regulation of female energies and as a self-consciously elaborated stage for the performance of Irish identity. They call into question the violent dislocations and disavowals required by figurative practices, particularly when utilizing Irish topography, an already 'unnatural' cultural construct shaped by conflict and suffering.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039119592
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Describing the Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other 'savages' has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has been asserted in recent decades by some feminists, but linking women's rights with animal advocacy can be controversial. This strategy responds to the fact that women's inferiority has been alleged and justified by appropriating them to nature, an appropriation that colonialism has also practiced on its racial and cultural others. Nineteenth-century feminists braved such associations, for instance, often asserting vegetarianism as a form of rebellion against the dominant culture. Vegetarianism and animal advocacy have uniquely Irish implications. This study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying the 'natural' as a gesture of resistance to paternalist regulation of female energies and as a self-consciously elaborated stage for the performance of Irish identity. They call into question the violent dislocations and disavowals required by figurative practices, particularly when utilizing Irish topography, an already 'unnatural' cultural construct shaped by conflict and suffering.