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"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 …
"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: …
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.
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.