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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Irish literature"”.
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Satirical narrative in early Irish literature
When critics formerly considered satire in early Irish literature their main focus was áer. Satire in the more modern sense has received comparatively little attention. This thesis attempts to redress that balance by analysing a number of specific texts for satirical content as it is conventionally …
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Heroes and heroism in medieval Irish literature
The heroes of medieval Irish literature have been, and continue to be, a topic of enduring interest, both within and beyond the academy. These heroes, of whom Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill are certainly the best known, are frequently the topics of discussion in many different sub-branches of the …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
… by English authors it finds significant use in Irish literature. There has been debate over how this genre should be defined, but I would suggest that instead of trying to force the Gothic into the categories of mode/tradition or Catholic/Protestant, it should be allowed to enact its own …
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The migrant in contemporary Irish literature and film:representations and perspectives
… society. A growing body of contemporary Irish literature and film is engaging with the reality of multi-cultural Ireland and representing the challenges of migrant life from a variety of perspectives. At the same time, these narratives reflect the contradictions, confusions and concerns …
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
<p>The gramophone's function in literature has generally been examined in relation to media studies and Walter Benjamin's discussion of the reproduction of art through mechanical means, emphasizing the gramophone’s playback of recorded materials. This particular methodology, however, only deals …
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… the opportunities and implications afforded Irish literary studies by developments in the newly emergent disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical …
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
… family resemblances approach to categorizing literature. Each chapter reevaluates both the broad parameters of various genres and specific twentieth-century British and Irish novels’ affiliations with them. Chapter 1 argues for a wider conception of espionage literature, as well as recognition …
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‘Transfiguration’s coming’: An investigation of the depiction of interspecies transformation in medieval Irish literature
… species of animal including human, in medieval Irish literature. It spans texts written from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, using the wide temporal range, along with an investigation of a number of genres, to consider the many ways in which transformation appears in these texts, and …
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In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham
<p>This essay is a look at a little known Irish poet, William Allingham, who invokes the fairy as a vehicle for a political change in Ireland. It offers a close reading of a few of his poems as well as historically approaches the use of fairies in the popular culture of the nineteenth century. In …
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Pre-Christian Characters in Medieval Irish Literature: An Examination of Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda
… pre-Christian protagonists of the four medieval Irish tales Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda. In examining the portrayal of pre-Christian characters, I have addressed a particularly characteristic feature of medieval Irish …
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Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierachy and Inspiration
… what philosophy, thus defined, means in an early Irish context, and does this through an exploration of the way that nature is conceptualised in contrast to the realities and capacities taken to be manifest in the Church. Chapter 1 discusses the influence of Isidore’s parallel conceptions of …
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A Critical Edition of 'Tochmarc Ferbe' with Translation, Textual Notes and Literary Commentary
… of the longest extant version of the medieval Irish text Tochmarc Ferbe (‘The Wooing of Ferb’), accompanied by translation, textual notes and literary commentary. Tochmarc Ferbe is found in two manuscripts, the Book of Leinster (LL) and Egerton 1782. This comprises three versions of the text: a …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh defines his Irish anti-hero by the “impotent worm on his thigh,” a “no-target gun” that represents his purposeless masculinity as life becomes “dried in [his] veins.” Twenty years later, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy presents the coming-of-age tale …
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Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre
… novel Gone with the Wind as a serious work of literature. Although various references to Irish culture permeate Gone with the Wind, the novel has not been compared to any Irish literature or mythology. This thesis compares Gone with the Wind with Irish Big House literature and mythology through …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… are martial heroes whose lives are placed in the Irish pre-Christian era. A hero is often a semi-divine figure in human form, living a mortal life and destined to experience an uncommon and often painful death. In other words, a hero is commonly what regular human beings would like to be, …
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The Heroic Biography of Cú Chulainn
Early Irish literature is romantic, idealised, stylised and gruesome. It shows a tension between reality and fantasy ’which seem to me to be usually an irresolvable dichotomy. The stories set themselves in pre-history. It presents these texts as a “window on the iron age”. The writers may have been …
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Perceptions of Annwn : the otherworld in the four branches of the Mabinogi.
… it is necessary to trawl the waters of early Irish literature. The Irish poems and stories give much fuller particulars of all characteristics of the Celtic Otherworld, though they do suggest that there was more than one such other world. Some parallels from Norse literature and the Lais of …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
… Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters Brigid Kathleen Ehrmantraut This thesis examines the reception of Classical mythology in Ireland, primarily between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, and analyzes the influence of Classical literature …
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Narratives in early Irish law tracts
… The significant presence of narratives in early Irish law tracts appears at odds with the normal conception of law texts as consisting solely of provisions, and therefore needs to be accounted for. Since no systematic study has been conducted of these legal narratives, this thesis serves as an …
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Displaced identities in the short stories of George Egerton
… examines Egerton's problematic position as an Irish writer, with a specific critical focus on evaluating the relationship between Egerton's texts and her status as both a woman of Irish origins and a migrant. The relevance of Irish cultural and historical contexts to Egerton's texts is …
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