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"Twenty Or Thirty Or Forty Years Ago": Time, Posthistory, And The Hyper-Present In Patrick Mccabe's The Butcher Boy, Benjamin Moroni Killgore
"Twenty Or Thirty Or Forty Years Ago": Time, Posthistory, And The Hyper-Present In Patrick Mccabe's The Butcher Boy, Benjamin Moroni Killgore
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This thesis is a commentary on Patrick McCabe's novel, The Butcher Boy, which was published in 1992. The novel is told through the perspective of the main character, Francie Brady, who through the majority of the narration is depicted as a young boy. Francie's life is riddled with tragedy with his moving from the loss of one important person in his life to another until the pain of these losses triggers a violent paranoid outburst resulting in the murder of the fixation of an obsession of his, Mrs. Nugent. This thesis looks at the events of the novel through …
Richard Iii: Beyond The Mystery, Daniel Hobbins
Richard Iii: Beyond The Mystery, Daniel Hobbins
Quidditas
He is not the likeliest theme for an American undergraduate classroom: his reign lasted barely two years; he contributed nothing of lasting significance to history; he is more memorable for his spectacular final defeat than for any victory; he was accused of murdering children; and he was after all an English king, as far removed as possible from the typical experience of an American undergraduate. Even the times he lived in are against him. In the immortal words of Mark Twain, his century was “the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages.”1 Yet he continues to …