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Book Review: Beckett At 100: Revolving It All, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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Beyond Irony: The Unnamable's Appropriation Of Its Critics In A Humorous Reading Of The Text, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

In traditional Beckett criticism, the most conventional interpretation of the narrator's activity in The Unnamable posits that the narrative is attempting to establish "his" own self-identity, but "[h]is search for self-knowledge has failed because it has produced only fiction" (Solomon 83). Another variety of this interpretation poses the Unnamable's dilemma in Existential language: "Existence affirms merely that something is; essence denotes what it is ... By the time we reach The Unnamable, the collapse of essence is virtually complete; the voice is a mere existence crying out that it exists" (Levy 104). As Dennis A. Foster argues in his Lacanian …

Trends In The Contemporary Irish Novel: Sex, Lies, And Gender, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

The 1990s Irish novel presents its own brand of uniqueness and sophistication to the contemporary Anglophone novel. In this article I divide the development of the 1990s Irish novel into three groups. The first type of novel that emerges in the 1990s concerns the presentation of a different image of Ireland, one that magnifies gender construction and sexual preference. The second group of novels concerns the act of reading itself and the difficulty in determining truth from lies. These novels impair the reader's ability to read in an effort to show that everything is a form of interpretation: memories, history, …

"Reclamation Of 'Injurious Terms' In Emma Donoghue's Fiction, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. * Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature * Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day * Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole * Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present …

Book Review: Saying I No More: Subjectivity And Consciousness In The Prose Of Samuel Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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Performance Review: "Women Don't Have Prostates': Woman Impersonating A Man Impersonating Krapp', Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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"What's It Like Being Irish?" The Return Of The Repressed In Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

This is a distinctive book that examines the diversity and energy of writing in a period marked by the unparalleled global prominence of Irish culture.This collection provides a wide-ranging survey of fiction, poetry and drama over the last two decades, considering both well-established figures and also emerging writers who have received relatively little critical attention. Contributors explore the central developments within Irish culture and society that have transformed the writing and reading of identity, sexuality, history and gender. The book examines the impact of Mary Robinson's Presidency; growing cultural confidence 'back home'; legislative reform on sexual and moral issues; the …

"A Slot Without An Occupant": Krapps Rhizome Identity, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

Introduction / Jennifer M. Jeffers

1 Whispers Out of Time / Helen Regueiro Elam

17 "Speak no more": The Hermeneutical Function of Narrative in Samuel Beckett's Endgame / Jonathan Boulter

39 "A place without an occupant": Krapp's Rhizome Identity / Jennifer M. Jeffers

63 Voices out of the Air: Freedom, Death, and Constraint in All That Fall / Stephen Dilks

81 Vain Reasonings: Not I / Derval Tubridy

111 Performing Vision(s): Perspectives on Spectatorship in Beckett's Theatre / Anna McMullan

133 "Sadism Demands a Story": Looking at Gender and Pain in Samuel Beckett's Plays / Karen Laughlin

159 Bodily Functions: …

Deviant Masculinity And Deleuzean Difference In Proust And Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

The Repetition Of Violence And History: William Trevor's 'Lost Ground', Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

The William Trevor Collection offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language: the author of fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays.

Book Review: Janespotting And Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since The Mid-1990s, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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The Silent Protagonist, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

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The White Bed Of Desire In A.S. Byatt's Possession, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

The British novelist A. S. Byatt frequently writes about art and color theory in her fiction. In Still Life (1985) Byatt intentionally saturates her text with musings on art and color; bordering on the didactic, she devotes long passages to Van Gogh's chromatics and individual characters' theories on art. With The Matisse Stories (1996) her discussion moves into the theory of complementary colors in the story “Art Work,” through the painter Robin Dennison. Painting for Robin is “a series of problems, really, inexhaustible problems, of light and color, you know” (70). In the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance, …

The Early Drama, Art, And Music Project: Publications 1977-2002, Timothy Christiansen, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

A bibliography of publications of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project at Western Michigan University, originally compiled by Timothy Christiansen and updated in 2002 by Clifford Davidson. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with an addendum, an update, and a few corrections to the formatting of the 2002 publication.

Hocus Pocus And The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament, Cameron Mcnabb

Cameron Hunt McNabb

This article addresses how heresy and parody intersect in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament through its religiously and verbally dissenting characters. The play’s highly theatrical depiction of a host miracle both enforces and undermines its emphatic endorsement of the real presence. The play ameliorates this tension by the privileging of words over deeds, aligning the transformative power of the consecratory words with the transformative power of believers’ confessions at conversion wherein both words and actions enact a transubstantiation, thus manifesting the real presence of Christ. The play’s language becomes a moral marker and the vehicle for the heretics’ dissent …

Beyond The Binary: Decoding W.B. Yeats’S Esoteric Metaphors, Deborah Green

Deborah M Green

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Fidelity In Versification: Modern English Translations Of Beowulf And Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, J. Smith

J. A. T. Smith

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Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory Sadlek

Gregory M Sadlek

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Courville Castle [Supplemental Material], Sarah Thompson

Sarah E. Thompson

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