Browsing by Author "O'Brien, Eugene"
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Seamus Heaney as aesthetic thinker: a study of the prose
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Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind Studies on Contemporary Ireland Series
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Seamus Heaney: searches for answers (Pre-print version)
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‘Seamus Heaney’
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Seamus Heaney’s Prose: Preoccupying Questions
O'Brien, Eugene (University of Ulster, 1999)This essay examines Seamus Heaney’s prose writings, wherein he discusses poetry as a mode of knowledge, which can explore the fractured aspects of identity and can shed light on aspects of what it mens to be human. Heaney’s ... -
A shabby old couple: Seamus Heaney's ekphrastic imperative (Pre-published version)
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"The soul exceeds its circumstances" : the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
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The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory
O'Brien, Eugene (Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry, 2004)This essay looks at three poems by Seamus Heaney in the light of Jacques Lacan’s theories of the subject. The type of subjectivity that is revealed in the poems is analysed, looking at Heaney’s early poems ‘Digging’ and ... -
The subjective real in William Trevor’s ‘Justina’s Priest’ (Pre-published version)
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‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: the kitchen as source in the poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2018)This article will examine the use of food, and especially food as cooked in a kitchen, as a symbolic trope in the writing of Seamus Heaney. It will address the kitchen as a locus amoenis of comfort, warmth and positivity ... -
Tá siad ag teacht: Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation (Pre-print version)
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‘Tendency-wit': the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger in the writings of Paul Howard (Pre-print version)
O'Brien, Eugene (Manchester University Press, 2014) -
‘there’s a lot more to ogres than people think’: Shrek as ethical fairy tale
O'Brien, Eugene (Institute of Technology, Tallaght; Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008) -
A ‘Third’ Reading: James Joyce and Paul Howard and the Monstrous Aporia
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'Through-otherness’ the deconstruction of language
O'Brien, Eugene (Pluto Press, 2003) -
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (Manchester University Press, 2017) -
Visioning Ireland: Pearse, prosopopoeia and the remembering of O'Donovan Rossa and Tone
O'Brien, Eugene (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, 2014) -
War of the words: literary rebellion in France and Ireland (Pre-published version)
O'Brien, Eugene; Maher, Eamon (T.I.R. [Université Rennes 2], 2010) -
‘What ish my nation?’: Towards a Negative Definition of Identity
O'Brien, Eugene (Minerva, 1999)This chapter examines Derrida’s distinction between law and justice, looking at the heritage of Pascal and Montaigne and examining issues of ethical and political responsibility in the process, taking some examples from ... -
Winterwood: A Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Pariah
O'Brien, Eugene (Peter Lang, 2008)Postmodernism is often seen as following sequentially from modernism but I would agree with Lyotard’s contention that postmodernism is actually ‘a part of the modern.’ Lyotard goes on to state that a work ‘can become modern ...