Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Issue Date
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Troubling bodies: suffering, resistance and hope in Colum McCann's 'Troubles' short fiction
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Negotiating the self – the spectral mobile subject (Pre-published version)
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The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ... -
Investigating higher education seminar talk
(Novitas-ROYAL, 2010)In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of ... -
A ‘Third’ Reading: James Joyce and Paul Howard and the Monstrous Aporia
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) -
Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2010)This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared in this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy of the historical and literary historical links between ... -
War of the words: literary rebellion in France and Ireland (Pre-published version)
(T.I.R. [Université Rennes 2], 2010) -
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010) -
C.S. Lewis: An Irish Writer (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010-02-10)This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises ... -
Media and discourse analysis
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'The Boat has Moved': The Catholic Church, Conflations and the Need for Critique
(Columba Press, 2011) -
Analyzing university spoken interaction: a corpus linguistics/conversation analysis approach
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2011)In this article, we consider how corpus linguistics (CL) and conversation analysis (CA) can be used together to provide enhanced descriptions of spoken interaction in the context of small group teaching in higher education. ... -
Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial ... -
Arrival and Departure:"Fishing the Sloe-Black River" (1994)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)‘Fishing the Sloe-Black River’, the title story of McCann’s first published collection, appeared in print a year before the complete volume of stories was published by Phoenix House. The quasi-magic realist narrative was ... -
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ... -
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 ...