113 research outputs found
'The country at my shoulder' : gender and belonging in three contemporary women poets
No full textThis
study considers the work of three women poets writing
in English during the
period
1970-2000. I
argue that the poets, Eavan Boland, Michele Roberts and Jackie
Kay
are all
`hybrid'
voices, positioned and positioning themselves on the borders
between different
cultures and traditions. Locating the poets within a specific social,
cultural and intellectual
context the
study considers the different
ways in
which the
poets negotiate these mixed
heritages and how
gender interacts with
their cultural
location to affect the
poetic identities they inhabit.
My
study of
Eavan Boland locates her
as a post-colonial poet writing out of a very
specific historical
relationship with
Britain. I
argue that the effects of
this
relationship are explored in two ways; the political and psychic legacy of
the British
colonisation of
Ireland but
also the ways in
which women in Ireland have been
colonised by
a nationalist poetic tradition. I
show how Boland interrogates these
different
colonisations and drawing
on the work of
Homi Bhabha I
argue that Boland
finds her
own
hybrid
space in
the Dublin
suburbs from
where she explores the
frictions between a number of conflicting positions.
My
study of
Michele Roberts explores the effects of
her dual French and English
heritage on her
writing.
I
argue that Roberts' desire to embrace both
aspects of
her
identity
manifests itself
as a desire to reconcile what western dualistic thinking has
split and separated. I
consider how Roberts advocates a writing and reading practise
which asks us to embrace the stranger within ourselves and so begin to
heal the split
within
individuals
and nations.
My
chapter on Kay
explores how
she negotiates the cultural specificity of
her
location
as a Scottish writer who
identifies
as black
and how her poetry complicates
questions of cultural authority and theories of cultural
hybridity. I
argue that Kay
through
a focus on
`performance' as both theme and aesthetic subverts simple fixed
notions of
identity.
I
conclude that all three poets problematise any simple notion of
home and belonging
as a fixed
and immutable space. Rather they inhabit borderlands, unsettled spaces,
where there is
a constant interaction and reformulation of
identity
Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.This introductory chapter provides an outline of the main contours of a theory of council democracy and offers a preliminary sketch of council democracy’s relationship with the major strands of democratic theory. Council democracy is a project of deepening democracy which includes the decentralisation of the state, democratisation of the economy and solidarity with similar international struggles for self-government. Council democrats view capitalist market relations as something that not only have to be tamed, but transformed in a manner which alters the underlying relationship between capital and labour and eliminates capitalists’ controlling power over workers and the state
Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils
No full textThis is the author accepted manusciptThis chapter aims to shed new light on our understanding of the development of council theory through an analysis of the early political experiences of council delegates in Hamburg at a formative stage of revolutionary activity and thought in Germany. We examine the minutes of 76 meetings of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council of Hamburg from 6 November 1918 to 24 March 1919 in order to offer a rich portrait of a key moment in the development of council theory. What we observe from the debates is that there is no single official position of council communism, but rather a set of shared underlying concerns and a number of different ways in which these ideas were put to work in different political contexts. The collapse of the legitimacy and authority of the old order and the organisation of councils into a force capable of taking de facto power opened the possibility of radical transformation. Yet attempts to theorise and create a new society were impeded both by ideological hesitation and the practical realities of attempting to govern in a divided and conflict-ridden society. The actions and theories of council delegates reflected a number of pragmatic compromises and competing interpretations over the proper structure and role for the councils
Paul Muldoon: Traduções
No full textThe present paper aims at a snippet within the poetic project of Northern-Irish poet Paul Muldoon: his translations. Since the beginning of his career, the poet showed interest in investigating the process of translation. However, it can be noticed how the thought of what is and what might be a translation for Muldoon has been modified and expanded throughout his career. We call attention to the recurrence of a mechanism used by him to give title to many of his poems – in eight of his twelve books of poetry released so far – that, here, will be called “author: work”. At first, the paper occupies itself in presenting this aspect of the muldoonesque work, as well as investigating in which way the movements made by the poet in the construction of his translational thought operate. Secondly, a reflection on the possible ways of thinking and executing translations for these poems by Muldoon is made, along with a presentation of poetic translations into Portuguese for four of the poems mentioned in the paper.O presente artigo tem como objeto um recorte dentro do projeto poético do poeta norte-irlandês Paul Muldoon: suas traduções. Desde muito cedo, em sua obra, o poeta demonstrou interesse em investigar o processo tradutório. O que se pode notar, no entanto, é como o pensamento a respeito do que é e do que pode ser tradução para Muldoon foi sendo modificado e expandido ao longo de sua carreira. Chama-se a atenção para a recorrência de um mecanismo utilizado para dar título a diversos de seus poemas – em oito de seus doze livros de poesia lançados até o momento – que, aqui, optou-se por nomear como “autor: obra”. Em um primeiro momento, o trabalho se presta a apresentar esse aspecto da obra muldooniana, assim como investigar de que maneira se dão os movimentos realizados pelo poeta na construção do seu pensamento tradutório. Em seguida, é construída uma reflexão quanto às maneiras possíveis de se pensar e realizar traduções para esses poemas de Muldoon, sendo que são apresentadas traduções poéticas para o português de quatro dos poemas mencionados ao longo do artigo
Naïve Narrators: The Voice of the Child in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon
No full textPulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, author of eleven volumes of poetry and two books of criticism and the recipient of numerous other accolades, is often the subject of literary criticism. A complicated and multi-faceted poet known for his use of dense reference and allusion, clever wordplay, and dazzling technical prowess, Muldoon is often branded a difficult poet. In the face of this difficulty, this project attempts to navigate a new point of entry to Muldoon\u27s work through the identification and study of na1ve narrators, or child speakers, and to study them alongside the larger themes of performance and play within Muldoon\u27s poetry. To do so, the project relies on numerous poems taken from throughout Muldoon\u27s career, as well as the body of scholarship that exists dedicated to the poet\u27s work. Gender theorist Judith Butler\u27s ideas about gender performativity also play an important role, providing an avenue for the performative nature of Muldoon\u27 s narrative voices
Northern Irish Elegy
No full textThis thesis proposes that Northern Irish elegy is a distinctive genre of contemporary poetry, which has developed during the years of the Troubles, and has continued to be adapted and defined during the current peace process. It argues that the practice of writing elegy for the losses of the Troubles has established a poetic mode in which Northern Irish poets have continued to work through losses of a more universal kind. This thesis explores the contention that elegy has a clear social and political function, providing a way in which to explore some of the losses experienced by a community over the past half-century, and helping to suggest ideas of consolation.
Part one focuses on three first generation Northern Irish elegists: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Heaney is considered in a chapter which takes in a poetic career, through which might be traced the development of Northern Irish elegy. Following this are two highly focused studies of the elegies of Longley and Mahon. The place of artifice in elegy is considered in relation to Longley's Troubles elegies, while Mahon’s irony is discussed in relation to his elegiac need for community.
Part two looks at a second generation, represented by Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon. Carson's elegies for Belfast are read in a discussion of the destruction and reconstruction that occurs during the process of remembering. This study explores the idea that elegies might also be written for places and temporal spaces. Carson's interest in poetic form is shown to be intricately related to his elegiac practice. The chapter on Muldoon surveys a career which has interrogated the connections between art and suffering. Muldoon raises questions of poetic responsibility, and also challenges poetry itself, on a formal and linguistic level. As his career develops, he includes not only the local threats of Troubles violence within his elegies, but also the global threats of disease, violence and terror.
Part three starts with Medbh McGuckian, whose work is discussed in relation to the third generation poets Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn and Colette Bryce. As McGuckian's poetry is perhaps the least immediately accessible of all the poetry covered here, the thesis considers ways in which her work might be read, before her poems are discussed as Northern Irish elegies. Following this are readings of poems from Morrissey, Flynn and Bryce, noting ways in which this generation works to develop the genre of elegy, working in the same broad themes that have been charted throughout this thesis
There’s Something about Marine: Strategies against the Far Right in the 2017 French Presidential Elections
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript.The Front National (FN) achieved unprecedented success in the 2017 French presidential elections, which poses a significant challenge for how competitors against the far right could counter its appeal. Taking as a starting point the existing literature on mainstream party strategies with regard to the far right, this article develops a novel approach. It draws on the insights of positioning theory to analyse a total of 108 speeches and interviews in which the four main candidates to the French Presidency in the 2017 campaign talk about the far right. We find significant variation in candidates' patterns of discourse, but also establish that these distinct strategies are better understood as complex hybrids of the categories in the literature
Political life writing in the Pacific
No full textThis book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and ‘dirty hands’. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’; the nature of ‘self’ presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by ‘outsiders’, or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means
Incidence of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Bacteremia in Patients Colonized With CRE
No full textSyphilis and HIV co-infection in Dublin; strategies to enhance diagnosis, investigation and management
No full textTHESIS 9036Following historically low levels of reported cases of syphilis in Dublin in the 1990s there was a large outbreak of syphilis reported in 2001. Numerous interventions were implemented and the rates again decreased in 2003. In 2008 a cluster of five patients with ocular syphilis presented in a short time period. This prompted a review of the number of cases of syphilis presenting to the Department of Genitourinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases in St. James?s Hospital
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