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Looking Down the Barrel of History. Review of The Dead Eight, by Carlo Gébler
(The Irish Times, 2011)
A Writer Pushed to the Edge. Review of Midnight in a Perfect Life, by Michael Collins
(The Irish Times, 2010)
The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection
(2010)
David Lynch has long been identified with 'New American Gothic', a late capitalist cinematography that disrupts the glossy normalcy of the American dream with visions of violent menace, and physical and sexual aberrancy. ...
Exile, pistols, and promised lands: Ibsen and Israeli modernist writers
(MDPI, 2019-09-17)
Allusions to Henrik Ibsen's plays in the works of two prominent Israeli modernist writers, Amos Oz s autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) and David Grossman s The Zigzag Kid (1994) examined in the context ...
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)
This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ...
‘Out of Proportion to the Small Loss’: Productivist agriculture in the farming novels of John McGahern and Halldór Laxness
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-05)
Ireland and Iceland, both (semi-)peripheral islands in relation to Europe's core hegemonic capitalism, once shared similar farming systems based on small holdings and rotational grazing. Today, however, agriculture looks ...
Impregnable towers and pregnable maidens in early modern english drama
(Western Michigan University, Department of English, 2019)
A young, marriageable, and implicitly pregnable woman s imprisonment in a purportedly impregnable tower (usually somewhere in Italy) is a recurrent motif in early modern English drama. Pertinent examples can be found in ...
Speech, silence, and Shakespearean quotation in The Sounding (2017)
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-25)
This article examines Catherine Eaton s The Sounding (2017). It uses the polarised critical interpretations that have emerged in response to Isabella s wordlessness in Act 5 of Shakespeare s Measure for Measure as a useful ...
Pressing pause: Critical reflections from the history of media studies
(TripleC, 2018-02-26)
This article examines the history of the fraught relationship between the fields of media and journalism studies and the media industries in the US and UK contexts. In the US, journalism programmes were built on instituting ...
What's wrong with Medievalism: Tolkien, the Strugatsky brothers, and the question of the ideology of fantasy
(International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2016)
This article addresses the question of the ideology of medievalist fantasy genre through an analysis of Hard to Be a God (1963) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky with references to J. R. R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings. ...