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| Titre : | Irish University Review : Périodique numérique et imprimé Vol 45 n 2 - Autumn/Winter 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/12/2015 |
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This essay springs from the experience of translating the Old Irish ‘Song of the Woman of Beare’, and from researching its reception in the twentieth century. The poem was rediscovered in the 1890s and the scholarly reaction is tinged with Victo[...]
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In this interview, conducted in the Summer of 2014, Frank McGuinness talks about his introduction to Old and Middle English as a student in University College Dublin and its influence on his writings. Particular attention is given to his enormou[...]
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Bernard O'Donoghue argues that his choice of specialising in the medieval parts of an English degree may have been unconsciously dictated by the language and culture of an Irish Catholic upbringing and school education. At Umeraboy National Scho[...]
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Benedicte SEYNHAEVE, Auteur ;
Raphaël INGELBIEN, Auteur
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Several studies have tried to answer the question ‘where is Ireland in "The Tempest"?’, while others have assessed Ireland's sense of its own postcoloniality through Irish writers' engagement with Shakespeare's most ‘colonial’ play. This essay a[...]
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This essay explores the relationship between anti-vice campaigns and the popular publishing industry of early-twentieth century Ireland. Specifically, it argues that there existed an informal but strongly symbiotic relationship between the two. [...]
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This essay is about the relation between the treatment of the body in Beckett's major French texts of 1945–6 and the Vichy regime. It examines Vichy conceptions of physical life and their effect on Beckett's texts, considering those texts as res[...]
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Late twentieth- and early twenty-first century fiction has witnessed a surge of interest in Henry James, his life and works. Most of these recent Jamesian (re-)engagements are concerned with the body, with James's (still) questionable homosexual[...]
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John Banville's "The Untouchable" functions as a critique of subjectivity after modernism, specifically theories of the decentred subject. The narrator of the book, Victor Maskell, is a fictionalized version of English art historian and Soviet s[...]
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As many critics have pointed out, Martin McDonagh's work for the stage and screen is deeply indebted to the drama of Samuel Beckett. While critics have spotted most of McDonagh's intertextual debts to Beckett, they have curiously failed to recog[...]
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This essay considers poems from two of Ciaran Carson's recent volumes of poetry, "Breaking News" and "Until Before After", both in terms of their poetic form and their relationship to the traditional genre of elegy. The themes of memory and memo[...]