Browsing by Author "Dine, Philip"
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A Carnivalesque Mirage: the Orient in Isabelle Eberhardt's Writings
Chouiten, Lynda (2012-12-10)As a woman who traversed the North African Orient in male costume, who spoke Arabic as well as French, who professed Islam while transgressing many of its instructions, Isabelle Eberhardt seems to fit within Mikhail Bakhtin¿s ... -
Exploring European sporting identities: history, theory, methodology ,
Crosson, Seán; Dine, Philip (Peter Lang, 2010)This collaborative study (an introduction to the collection Sport, Representation, and Evolving Identities in Europe) is intended to contribute to the ongoing elucidation of the role of sport in the processes of identity ... -
From phantasmagoria to mundanity: the fetishization of the automobile in 20th-century French representations
Coffey, Edward (2015-01-30)The automobile is an object that has been systematically consumed to become part of the fabric of society, hence its impact and its perception make the car a particularly precise means of studying cultural values. As it ... -
How French is 'French' sport?
Dine, Philip (Edinburgh University Press, 2015-12)This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive ... -
(Im)Possibility of Utopia: Aldous Huxley and Michel Houellebecq
Uzelac, Maša (NUI Galway, 2023-08-17)This thesis examines the connections between ambivalence and Utopianism through the writings of Aldous Huxley and Michel Houellebecq. By conducting a comprehensive analysis of the authors’ seminal works, this study ... -
Performing the Pied-Noir family: Weaving narratives of memory and identity
Connolly, Aoife (2014-03-10)Although the Algerian war (1954-1962) is now fifty years past, it remains a contentious issue in France. In the aftermath of this particularly violent conflict, the French public was encouraged to forget the hostilities ... -
Pragmatic utopia and Romantic science: Colonial identities and Saint-Simonian influences in the writings of Thomas Ismaÿl Urbain (1812-1884) and Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892)
Walsh, Sheila (2013-12-18)In the nineteenth century, the Southern Mediterranean was a region of special significance for the Western imagination. This was particularly true for the French following the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt of 1798-1801 ... -
Reconstructive performances of memory and trauma in life writing by daughters of Harkis
Hensey, Clíona (NUI Galway, 2018-12-14)This study presents a close reading and comparative analysis of a corpus of texts by daughters of harkis – Algerian men who served as auxiliary soldiers in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) ... -
Sport and the media in Ireland: an introduction
Crosson, Seán; Dine, Philip (Taylor and Francis, 2011)[Introduction to Media History Special Issue on Sport and the Media in Ireland]. The symbiotic relationship that has existed since the mid-nineteenth century between sport and the media - from the popular press, through ...