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Book Review: Beckett At 100: Revolving It All, Jennifer Jeffers
Book Review: Beckett At 100: Revolving It All, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers
Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
Beyond Irony: The Unnamable's Appropriation Of Its Critics In A Humorous Reading Of The Text, Jennifer Jeffers
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
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
"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 …
Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers
Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
From Murphy to Rockaby to Worstward Ho, Beckett’s Masculinity illustrates how Samuel Beckett’s work functions as a testament to the site of memory for the historically erased twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his own personal traumatic loss of a masculine, patriarchal national identity into a sustained group of obsessive images in his texts. As Beckett’s work matured, he utilized the strategies of emasculation and gender distortion to dismantle Western masculinity. Beckett’s Masculinity shows that Western hegemonic masculinity was a source of private trauma and anxiety for Beckett; yet, he eventually transformed the twentieth-century …
Book Review: Saying I No More: Subjectivity And Consciousness In The Prose Of Samuel Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers
Book Review: Saying I No More: Subjectivity And Consciousness In The Prose Of Samuel Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation Of British Literature, Jennifer Jeffers
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation Of British Literature, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use clichéd Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British literature. The films discussed in this book are evidence of the way one nation remakes another, often in the image of itself or what it needs the Other to be (as the British Empire once did). Reterritorialization on the part of Hollywood manifests American cultural and capitalist hegemony over the English speaking world. Britain Colonized identifies the phenomena portending the future of British and Anglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriated for American ends.
Performance Review: "Women Don't Have Prostates': Woman Impersonating A Man Impersonating Krapp', Jennifer Jeffers
Performance Review: "Women Don't Have Prostates': Woman Impersonating A Man Impersonating Krapp', Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
A Sublime Event: Gordon Craig's Uber-Marionette In Samuel Beckett's Late Drama, Jennifer Jeffers
A Sublime Event: Gordon Craig's Uber-Marionette In Samuel Beckett's Late Drama, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
"What's It Like Being Irish?" The Return Of The Repressed In Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer, Jennifer Jeffers
"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
"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
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
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
Book Review: Janespotting And Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since The Mid-1990s, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook On Modern Dramatists, Jennifer Jeffers
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook On Modern Dramatists, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
Garland reference library of the humanities - Casebooks on modern dramatists ; vol. 25
The Silent Protagonist, Jennifer Jeffers
The Irish Novel At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, And Power, Jennifer Jeffers
The Irish Novel At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, And Power, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
This text interprets a wide range of Irish novels of the 1990s, focusing on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. It looks at how identities do, or don't, conform to familiar notions of sexuality, gender and culture and goes on to say that Irish identity is a matter of economics.
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
The White Bed Of Desire In A.S. Byatt's Possession, Jennifer Jeffers
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
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.
Culinary Jane Austen, Christopher D. Wilkes
Culinary Jane Austen, Christopher D. Wilkes
Christopher D Wilkes
In the world of domestic intimacy that Jane Austen fashions for us, food, its production, preparation and consumption, appears almost nowhere, at least in the novels themselves. But there is a complex moral economy that surrounds food, and its analysis tells us much of the broader social and economic hierarchies that swirled around the Austen families, as they engaged in a struggle for social recognition and social maintenance. When we take the Austen films into account, this analysis gains sharpness, and makes what is often inferred very clear indeed. This paper examines the social meaning of these culinary habits, first …
Zombies, Sea-Monsters And Vampires: Jane Austen Flirts With The Horror Genre, Christopher Wilkes
Zombies, Sea-Monsters And Vampires: Jane Austen Flirts With The Horror Genre, Christopher Wilkes
Christopher D Wilkes
Notes for a panel at Pacific University.
Hocus Pocus And The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament, Cameron Mcnabb
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 …
How (Not) To Sell A Military Memoir In Britain, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Neil Jenkings, Rachel Woodward
How (Not) To Sell A Military Memoir In Britain, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Neil Jenkings, Rachel Woodward
Esmeralda Kleinreesink
Pusey's Sermons At St. Saviour's, Leeds, Robert Ellison
Pusey's Sermons At St. Saviour's, Leeds, Robert Ellison
Robert Ellison
"E . B. Pusey as a Preacher." It would not be surprising to find such a phrase as the title of a nineteenth-century work. Authors in both Britain and America used it in books and articles about numerous ministers, literary figures, the Apostle Paul, and even Jesus himself.1 Edward Bouverie Pusey, in fact, was the subject of one such piece: a review of Sermons for the Church's Seasons from Advent to Trinity, published in the Spectator on 11 August 1883. Such a scope would, however, be too broad for a scholarly study in the twenty-first century. Pusey's canon is simply …
The Politics Of Shelley: History, Theory, Form, Matthew C. Borushko | Editor
The Politics Of Shelley: History, Theory, Form, Matthew C. Borushko | Editor
Matthew Borushko
A Rhetorical Comparison Of Spurgeon, Newman, And Macdonald, Robert Ellison
A Rhetorical Comparison Of Spurgeon, Newman, And Macdonald, Robert Ellison
Robert Ellison
This is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of nineteenth-century preaching. The debate over whether sermons should be read from the manuscript or delivered extempore is analyzed, and the Victorian practices of attending preaching services on Sunday and reading and writing about sermons throughout the week is discussed. The second part of the book analyses the rhetoric of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Henry Newman, and George MacDonald, and ends with a comparison of these three preachers' sermons on the death and resurrection of Lazarus.
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Mollie Freier
Library mysteries written since 1970 often depict intrigue surrounding the theft or threatened theft of rare books. Charles Goodrum, a director of the Library of Congress, once wrote that when he decided to write a mystery novel set in a library, he spent an evening coming up with ideas for such a novel. He said that he came up with dozens, but settled on a plot about rare book theft because he thought it would be more accessible to general readers. Many other mystery writers have made the same decision. Although these mysteries are often considered library mysteries and frequently …
Between Subject And Tech Expertise: Collaborating With Faculty For Digital Humanities Projects [Presentation], Rose Fortier, Heather G. James, Wendy Fall
Between Subject And Tech Expertise: Collaborating With Faculty For Digital Humanities Projects [Presentation], Rose Fortier, Heather G. James, Wendy Fall
Rose Fortier
Libraries are well-positioned for partnership with digital humanities efforts in several ways. The management of digital items and the description of information resources for future researchers make libraries natural partners in digital humanities projects. Often Humanities scholars will reach out to the library for support or even guidance in these projects. At Marquette University, the Gothic Archive exemplifies the development of this collaboration. Though the Archive started as a humble collection of digitized and transcribed gothic chapbooks, it is being developed into an interwoven collection of digitized materials and contextual objects and promises to become a full-fledged digital humanities tool. …