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Breaking the Book Fetish
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The brief Ovidian career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian complaint
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Calling attention to the Ovidian contours of Isabella Whitney s cursus litterarum, this essay reconsiders the literary heritage of the personae she adopts in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566) and A Sweet Nosgay (1573). Existing ... -
Buffalo Bill and the Modern Man
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Building the Structure
(The Irish Times, 2003-04-05) -
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ... -
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
(Etudes Epistémè, 2012)In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced two editions of The Passionate Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ... -
Citizens of the World
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A Contemporary Caper
(The Irish Times, 2005-04-30) -
The Contraband of Hibernia
(2013)In the early 1980s, Anthony Cronin identified Thomas Moore as "the necessary national bard" suggesting that his work was crucial to the coherent articulation of Irish national identity in the early nineteenth century. ... -
The Country of Most Interest
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Craving the Normal
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Creatures of Inner and Outer Space
(The Irish Times, 2009-05-16) -
The critic in pieces: the theory and practice of literary reviewing
(Four Courts Press, 2001) -
Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
(2014)James Macpherson s Ossian poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ... -
The cultural dynamics of reception
(Duke University Press, 2020-01-01)The cultural dynamics of reception are best understood as a reiterative process of reshaping and reframing. Reception as an object of critical study embraces first the history of how texts were read, disseminated, and ... -
Death's Dominion
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Deep into the Virtual and the Actual
(The Irish Times, 2007-04-07) -
Defining Colony and Empire in 19th-Century Irish Nationalism
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Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ...