Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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Guests of a nation; geists of a nation
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2007) -
Hannah Lynch and narratives of the Irish literary revival
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Haruki Murakami's postmodern condition: representing the postmodern in the translated novel
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)This thesis offers a close reading of some of the texts of Haruki Murakami through a postmodern lens, offering a new perspective on how the Japanese writer corroborates Lyotard’s notion of the ‘Postmodern Condition’ and ... -
Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)
(Springer Nature, 2018-07-31)The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in ... -
Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Irish settled and Traveller family discourse
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)The present study utilises an integrative theoretical approach that combines variational pragmatics and community of practice to examine two corpora representing spoken language collected in the home/family environment: ... -
'I know something now of my Irish subjects': Castle Rackrent and Maria Edgeworth's imagined communities
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"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish identities (Pre-published version)
(Rodopi Press, 2003)This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the ... -
Imagi-nation in Brendan Kennelly's "Cromwell"
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Intellectual Imposters?- We Should be so Lucky!:Towards an Irish Public Sphere
(Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009)Looking back on the challenge posed to critical theory by the publication in 1999 of Sokal and Bricmont’s book, Intellectual Impostures, this essay argues that the latter was at least evidence of the ongoing vitality of ... -
Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)
(Oxford Academic, 2013)In a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with ... -
Introduction Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)At the beginning of the RTÉ Arts Lives documentary, ‘Colum McCann – Becoming a New Yorker’ (2009), Colum McCann asks, selfconsciously, why anyone would want to follow him around with a camera and make a film about his life ... -
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: From prosperity to austerity: a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2014)