3,522 research outputs found
The redress of imagination: Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes
No full textIntroduction: narrating hope in a postmodern world / Emily Griesinger -- The postmodern condition -- Inventing hope : the question of belief in Don Delillo's novels / Mark Eaton -- Voices from within : Gloria Anzaldu?a, bell hooks, and Roberta Bondi / Anne-Marie Bowery -- Time for hope : The sixth sense, American beauty, Memento, and Twelve monkeys / D. Brent Laytham -- Beyond futility : American beauty and the Book of Ecclesiastes / Robert K. Johnston -- The valley of despair -- Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's Souls raised from the dead / Martha Greene Eads -- Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's Homecoming man / Elaine Lux -- Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling -- Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's The town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert -- Resisting the night -- A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. Bush, Jr. -- The prophetic burden : James Baldwin as a latter-day Jeremiah / Kelvin Beliele -- Reconciliation and hope : confessional narratives in South Africa / Susan VanZanten Gallagher -- Adversity and grace -- Hope in hard times : moments of epiphany in illness narratives / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- Geographies of hope : Kathleen Norris and David Lynch / Kevin L. Cole -- Attunement and healing : The fisher king / Michael B. Herzog --The gift of grace : Isak Dinesen's Babette's feast / Maire Mullins -- Hope and the imagination -- The redress of imagination : Bernard MacLaverty's Grace notes / Barry Sloan -- The search for "deeper magic" : J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis / Emily Griesinger -- J.R.R. Tolkien : postmodern visionary of hope / Ralph C. Wood.<br/
Sectarianism and the Protestant mind: some approaches to a recurrent theme in Irish drama
No full textThis articles considers how seven dramatists have treated sectarian tension in Northern Irish society in plays written during the last seventy years. Although the emphasis is on Protestant attitudes in particular, the implications of sectarianism for the community as a whole are shown. Attention is given to the different dramatic methods used by the playwrights in their representation of the fears, insecurities and ignorance that lie behind sectarian behaviour. The writers discussed include Gerald Macnamara, St John Ervine, Sam Thompson, John Boyd, Stewart Parker, Christina Reid and Frank McGuinness.Cet article étudie la façon dont sept dramaturges ont traité dans des pièces écrites au cours des soixante-dix dernières années la tension sectaire dans la société de l'Irlande du Nord. Bien que l'accent soit mis en particulier sur l'attitude des protestants, on essaie de montrer les conséquences du sectarisme sur la communauté dans son ensemble. On analyse par ailleurs les différentes méthodes dramatiques qu'utilisent les auteurs dans leur représentation des craintes, de l'insécurité et de l'ignorance liées au comportement sectaire. Parmi les écrivains abordés ici figurent Gerald Macnamara, St John Ervine, Sam Thompson, John Boyd, Stewart Parker, Christina Reid et Frank McGuinness.Sloan Barry. Sectarianism and the Protestant Mind : Some Approaches to a Recurrent Theme in Irish Drama. In: Études irlandaises, n°18-2, 1993. pp. 33-43
Samuel Lover's Irish novels
No full textCet article se propose d'étudier les deux œuvres les plus connues de Samuel Lover : Rory O'More (1837) et Handy Andy (1842). Il compare la position de Lover vis-à-vis de ses compatriotes et de leurs problèmes sociaux avec celle d'autres romanciers irlandais, tels que Michael et John Banim, Gerald Griffin et William Carleton. L'auteur cherche à démontrer que l'œuvre de Lover marque l'arrivée, dans la fiction anglo-irlandaise, du roman divertissant.
En particulier, il tente de mettre en évidence les aspects par lesquels l'attitude de Lover envers ses lecteurs anglais différait de celle de la plupart de ses contemporains, et il montre combien Lover contribua à entretenir l'image stéréotypée de l'Irlandais bouffon, sot et gaffeur, mais néanmoins doté d'un grand cœur. Les aventures des héros de ces romans illustrent ce propos.
Les intrigues viennent appuyer l'affirmation selon laquelle Lover ne permettait que rarement à son sujet de devenir sérieux, bien que l'auteur signale quelques exceptions à cette règle. L'article étudie également dans le détail les solutions de facilité et les dérobades sentimentales des héros de ces romans, et compare ces à la tension et à l'introspection angoissée qui domine dans les œuvres plus anciennes.
L'auteur s'intéresse ensuite à l'influence du milieu de Lover sur son œuvre et souligne le fait que sa carrière d'écrivain fut presque accidentelle.
La conclusion fait état de l'impact des romans de Lover et de leur influence sur le comportement, notamment celui des Anglais envers les Irlandais, et propose un jugement sur la place que Lover occupe, par rapport à ses prédécesseurs, dans le roman de son pays.Sloan Barry. Samuel Lover's Irish Novels. In: Études irlandaises, n°7, 1982. pp. 31-42
Barry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history
No full textMichael Longley's father has been a recurring presence in the poet's work from his earliest to his most recent collection. The article examines the exceptional strength of that bond reflected in the varying and changing ways in which the poet has responded to it - memorising and mourning his loss; discovering through his father's First World War stories a means of memorialising loss of life in contemporary conflicts and a way of facing the history of the 20th century; confronting his own ageing and mortality; and marking the specific, but also representative, generational history of his family
Barry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
William Carleton: protestants and protestantism
No full textThe William Carleton Summer School is one of the most important literary festivals on the island in that there are very few that make a point of studying an aspect of Ireland before the Great Famine. William Carleton (1794-1869) is the greatest author to have written about the Irish peasant and the Ireland of the period immediately preceding it: he enables the reader to think back past the Famine into the culture – particularly the peasant culture - of that time, confused, rich, tortured, bilingual, that made him as a writer.Enjoying immense popularity during his lifetime, his popularity dwindled but a century after his death it began to revive, not least because of the influence of the Summer School. The lectures given at the School and revised for publication in William Carleton, The Authentic Voice provide ample evidence that he was one of the greatest entertainers of Irish literature in English.This volume also contains contemporary portraits of Carleton, reproduces previously unpublished letters and documents, a chronology, publication history of his writings, provides fine line illustrations by Sam Craig and detailed maps of the countryside he loved and wrote about, so this is an indispensible book for everyone interested in Carleton and pre-Famine Ireland
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