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Navigating The Anglo-Irish Landscape: Imaginative Geographies In Bram Stoker And Elizabeth Bowen's Novels, Natalie Pearson Dec 2024

Navigating The Anglo-Irish Landscape: Imaginative Geographies In Bram Stoker And Elizabeth Bowen's Novels, Natalie Pearson

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

There has been great work done by scholars of Anglo-Irish Gothic tradition to assess the place of classic fictional characters within that tradition. Could a character’s identity contain an Irish dimension? Could they be, perhaps, an allegorical embodiment of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy or native Irish peasantry? All excellent questions; however, this present study looks to explore a different perspective by considering “place” itself across four Anglo-Irish Gothic novels: that of Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass (1890) and Dracula (1897) and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1929) and Bowen’s Court (1942). I seek to highlight the physical landscape in each …


Rebels And Dubliners: Motherhood In Three 20th-Century Irish Texts, Sara S. Barenfeld May 2024

Rebels And Dubliners: Motherhood In Three 20th-Century Irish Texts, Sara S. Barenfeld

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This thesis explores representations of motherhood across several genres in Irish literature. In my essay, I look at two short stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914): “The Boarding House” and “A Mother.” I argue the way spatiality functions in “The Boarding House” and “A Mother” reveals Mrs. Mooney’s and Mrs. Kearney’s overall ability to exercise maternal agency; it shows the extent to which their agency is circumscribed. The spaces themselves act as defining factors contributing to the mothers’ abilities to engage with power structures and ultimately fail or succeed in their endeavors. I also examine two autobiographies: The Autobiography of …


Bureaucratic Sorceries In The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives On Magic & Officialdom, Alexandra Irimia Dec 2022

Bureaucratic Sorceries In The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives On Magic & Officialdom, Alexandra Irimia

Languages and Cultures Publications

This article discusses The Third Policeman through the lens of a dialectic of enchantment and disenchantment that is firmly anchored in the history of anthropological discourse on bureaucracy (Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Tambiah, Herzfeld, Graeber, Jones). From this angle, Flann O’Brien’s novel is examined as an aesthetic illustration of an essentially anthropological argument: although bureaucracy has been described as an eminently rational form of social systematisation, regulation, and control (since Weber), it also functions, paradoxically, as a symbolic site for irrationality and supernatural occurrences, haunted by madness, mystery, and delusion. The novel is intriguing partly due to its nonchalant, humorous entwining of …


The Dichotomy Of Nature And Culture In Riders To The Sea, Kayla J. Baur Oct 2021

The Dichotomy Of Nature And Culture In Riders To The Sea, Kayla J. Baur

Publications and Research

Jonathan Millington Synge spent his time on the Aran Islands wandering through the peasantry in the countryside, using his experiences and things he witnessed to inspire his writings. He wrote the play Riders to the Sea to portray the lives of the Aran peasants by showing the way in which they coped with the natural forces surrounding their island through believing in certain cultures. Synge constructs a dichotomy between the belief in the forces of nature and culture stemming from modern Christianity not only to portray the mixture of cultures present among the Aran peasants but also to challenge the …


Food And The Irish Short Story Imagination, Anke Klitzing Jul 2021

Food And The Irish Short Story Imagination, Anke Klitzing

Articles

Short fiction is a format heartily embraced by the Irish literary imagination since the nineteenth century. This paper takes a gastrocritical approach to investigate the role of food in selected stories from the recently published anthology The Art of the Glimpse (2020). It shows that through the years, food and foodways have been valuable tools for Irish writers, providing setting and context, themes and symbols, plot points, conflicts, characterisation, as well as the quintessential epiphanies.


Introduction: Ireland, The Irish, And Biofiction, Michael Lackey Jan 2021

Introduction: Ireland, The Irish, And Biofiction, Michael Lackey

English Publications

No abstract provided.


Burning, Drowning, Shining, Blooming: The Shapes Of Aging In W.B. Yeats’ Poetry, Malea C. Martin Jan 2019

Burning, Drowning, Shining, Blooming: The Shapes Of Aging In W.B. Yeats’ Poetry, Malea C. Martin

CMC Senior Theses

Love and growing old are thematically inseparable in W.B. Yeats' poetry, yet it is the former with which this great Irish poet is often associated. The poet's attitudes toward aging are made clear through his symbolism, complicated Irish allusions, and a sometimes jarring treatment of women. As it turns out, these devices have as much to do with Yeats' concern over aging as they have to do with the infamous Maud Gonne. This thesis attempts to not only expose and analyze these intricacies, but also challenge the way the literary canon typically isolates Yeats’ more famous poems without the context …


Revised Emblems Of Erin In Novels By John Mcgahern And Colum Mccann (2015), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Revised Emblems Of Erin In Novels By John Mcgahern And Colum Mccann (2015), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

In “Cathal’s Lake,” a 1996 story by Colum McCann, “a big [Irish] farmer with a thick chest” lives by a lake, “which in itself is a miniature countryside—ringed with chestnut trees and brambles, banked ten feet high on the northern side, with another mound of dirt on the eastern side, where frogsong can often be heard.” In By the Lake, a 2002 novel by John McGahern, an aging Irishman also lives by a lake, another enclosed space of tranquility, as is suggested in the opening lines: “The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake. There was …


Revised Emblems Of Erin In Novels By John Mcgahern And Colum Mccann, Shaun O’Connell Jun 2015

Revised Emblems Of Erin In Novels By John Mcgahern And Colum Mccann, Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

In “Cathal’s Lake,” a 1996 story by Colum McCann, “a big [Irish] farmer with a thick chest” lives by a lake, “which in itself is a miniature countryside—ringed with chestnut trees and brambles, banked ten feet high on the northern side, with another mound of dirt on the eastern side, where frogsong can often be heard.” In By the Lake, a 2002 novel by John McGahern, an aging Irishman also lives by a lake, another enclosed space of tranquility, as is suggested in the opening lines: “The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake. There was …


The Domestic Interior, The Female Body, And The Metaphorical Irish Nation In The Works Of James Joyce, Ellen Scheible May 2015

The Domestic Interior, The Female Body, And The Metaphorical Irish Nation In The Works Of James Joyce, Ellen Scheible

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Contributors, John Countryman, Rand Brandes Aug 2014

Contributors, John Countryman, Rand Brandes

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


The Rain Stick Revisited, Rand Brandes Aug 2014

The Rain Stick Revisited, Rand Brandes

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Goodbye, Seamus, Shannon Hipp Aug 2014

Goodbye, Seamus, Shannon Hipp

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Hardly "A Cold Heaven": Recalling Seamus Heaney, Brendan Corcoran Aug 2014

Hardly "A Cold Heaven": Recalling Seamus Heaney, Brendan Corcoran

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice Aug 2014

Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins Aug 2014

Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw Aug 2014

1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation, Margaret M. Harper Aug 2014

Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation, Margaret M. Harper

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Remembering Seamus Heaney, Jill Mccorkle Aug 2014

Remembering Seamus Heaney, Jill Mccorkle

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Giver: Seamus Heaney, Richard R. Russell Aug 2014

Remembering The Giver: Seamus Heaney, Richard R. Russell

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Joint Turbary: Heaney’S “Digging” And Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin’S “A Shéamais, Déan Dom”, Cóilín Owens Aug 2014

Joint Turbary: Heaney’S “Digging” And Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin’S “A Shéamais, Déan Dom”, Cóilín Owens

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


"Amach As An Iontas," Isteach San Iontas, I Gcuimhneachán: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew Aug 2014

"Amach As An Iontas," Isteach San Iontas, I Gcuimhneachán: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew Aug 2014

"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien Aug 2014

Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Note On Heaney And Pascoli, Marco Sonzogni Aug 2014

Note On Heaney And Pascoli, Marco Sonzogni

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


A Jobber In His Shadow, Marco Sonzogni Aug 2014

A Jobber In His Shadow, Marco Sonzogni

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey Aug 2014

North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Grand, Nat Anderson Aug 2014

Grand, Nat Anderson

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Longing Eyebrows, Eamon Loingsigh Aug 2014

Longing Eyebrows, Eamon Loingsigh

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013, Henry Hart Aug 2014

Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013, Henry Hart

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.