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“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),
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction: Women and ageing in Irish writing, drama and film
(Nordic Irish Studies Network, 2018)
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