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Heidegger, or the neglect of boundaries
(Copernicus Publications, 2015-05-05)Benedikt Korf’s recent invitation to re-think the deployment of Heidegger’s philosophy within geography in the pages of this journal (Korf, 2014) is both opportune and essential: opportune, because the many and continuing ... -
“I am coming!” Returning to the Womb in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Michael Haneke’s Film La Pianiste
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2010)Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983), 1 a novel about a piano teacher (Erika Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ... -
Introduction: Women and ageing in Irish writing, drama and film
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Kontinuum der Ausnahmezustände. Hans-Henny Jahnn 1930-1950
(De Gruyter, 2016-12-31)Hans Henny Jahnn (1894‒1959) gilt heute als einer der „großen produktiven Außenseiter des [20.] Jahrhunderts“ und zugleich als „Verneiner der Zivilisation“1 Die meisten Standardwerke der deutschen Literaturgeschichte ... -
Novels of ripening: The maturation of the bildungsroman
(Bloomsbury, 2023-06-29)This chapter explores how the Bildungsroman, originally associated with young protagonists’ coming-of-age, has been revised in recent fiction to incorporate the continuing development and growth of characters well ... -
Reading Seán O'Casey in the GDR
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Reimagining the Fourth Age: The ageing mother in the poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan
(Nordic Irish Studies Network, 2018)In my analysis of selected poems by Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan, literary representations of the ageing mother are explored in conjunction with research in cultural and social gerontology relating to the demographic group ... -
Remembering at the margins: trauma, memory practices and the recovery of marginalised voices at the Berlin-Hohenschonhausen memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-11)The Berlin-Hohenschonhausen memorial is located on the site of the main remand prison for people detained by the Stasi, the GDR secret police. In this exploration of memory practices at the site, the concept of marginalisation ... -
Stories of exile and home: Dementia and masculinity in Arno Geiger’s Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney’s Minor Monuments
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"Struck with Ireland fever": Hugo Hamilton's Berlin trilogy
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Surplus to requirements? The ageing body in contemporary Irish writing
(Routledge, 2020-12-31)The dramatic rise and fall of Ireland s economy over the past three decades has brought substantial changes to social life. Against this backdrop, the nature, experience, and representation of ageing have evolved to meet ... -
Trembling Drums. The Permeable Membranes of Rilke’s “Weltinnenraum”
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2014)At first sight, looking at Rilke’s Duineser Elegien and Sonette an Orpheus when thinking of utopian, dystopian or heterotopian spaces represented in literature seems an unlikely choice. It is Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte ... -
"Unter schläfernden Lidern" Dämmerzustände in Rainer Maria Rilkes später Lyrik
(Königshausen und Neumann, 2017)[No abstract available]