Browsing by Subject "Politics"
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Anastomosis, attenuations and Manichean allegories: Seamus Heaney and the complexities of Ireland (Pre-published version)
(JCPCS [Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies], 2001)This essay discusses the nature of postcolonial versions of Irishness and deconstructs the Manichean categories of selfhood and alterity which feature in both colonial and postcolonial discourse. Using some ideas from ... -
At the Frontier of Language: Literature, Theory, Politics
(Minerva, 1996)This essay examines the problematics of language and identity. Beginning with a deconstructive reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Broagh’, it moves on to deconstruct the signifier of Ulster, showing how the use of this term, ... -
The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
(Irish Academic Press, 2006)This essay examines the imaginative use of images of the violently abused body in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, this essay also looks at real bodies – victims of the ... -
‘Both more than a language and no more of a language’: Michael Hartnett and the Politics of Translation.
(Four Courts Press, 2003)This essay looks at the politics of translation through a specific focus on the poetry, in Irish and in English, of Michael Hartnett. It suggests a politics of translation that is emancipatory and creative, and deconstructs ... -
Decommissioning the Canon: Towards a Deconstruction of the Givens of the Literary Canon
(Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content, 2003)This essay examines the differences between high and popular culture, looking at Joyce and Heaney as synecdoches of cannon-creation and a resultant decommissioning of that canon. This is done through a deconstructive ... -
The Force of Law in Seamus Heaney's Greek Translations
(Careysfort Press, 2008)This essay examines the use of law in Heaney’s Greek translations: The Burial at Thebes, and The Cure at Troy. For Derrida,, the founding moment of law, in a society or culture, is never a moment ‘inscribed’ in the history ... -
"A form to accommodate the mess": a genetic (self-)translation study of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic writing
(2023-10-02)This thesis analyses the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s self-translated dramatic texts in order to better understand how an author recaptures the cadences, originality and political implications of his earlier versions ... -
Interview with Anni Hose (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Anonymous (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Billy O Carroll (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Bridget Neylon (Oral History Collection)
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Interview with Christina Murphy (Oral History Collection)
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