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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, …