‘Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse’ : Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Reimagining Ireland
ISBN-10
3039115391
ISBN-13
9783039115396
Edition
New
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 14th, 2009
Print length
211 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.40 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -PhilosophyCultural studies
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The concepts of Ireland and ''Irishness'' are in constant flux in the wake of an ever-increasing reappraisal of the notion of cultural and national specificity in a world assailed from all angles by the forces of globalisation and uniformity. Reimagining Ireland interrogates Ireland''s past and present and suggests possibilities for the future by looking at Ireland''s literature, culture and history and subjecting them to the most up-to-date critical appraisals associated with sociology, literary theory, historiography, political science and theology.
This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiations between texts and their contexts and then analyses how the writer both reflects and transforms aspects of his or her cultural milieu. The essays examine literary texts by W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce and Sean Ó’Faoláin; media texts such as Father Ted, American Beauty and a series of Guinness advertisements; as well as cultural and political contexts such as globalisation, religion, the Provisional IRA and media treatment of murders in Ireland. The author also looks at aspects of the postcolonial and feminist paradigms and makes use of a theoretical matrix based on the work of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
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