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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 467–476.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for the purposes of “illuminating, simultaneously, the cultural dynamic of child sex scandal in modern Ireland and the specific role of modern and contemporary Irish novels in responding to and participating in this dynamic” (131) inevitably encounters the difficulty of aligning lived experiences of trauma...
View articletitled, The Child Sex Scandal and Modern <span class="search-highlight">Irish</span> Literature: Writing the Unspeakable , by Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 220–227.
Published: 01 June 2017
... an idea of world citizenship for those who are perennially displaced from their native land even when they are at home, and who thus “experience separation from home not as an estrangement but as an extension, or broadening out, of an alienation that already exists” (126). The final chapter of Irish...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Irish</span> Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett by Nels Pearson
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Nels Pearson The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature , by Parsons Cóilín . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 247 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 In light of the geocritical turn in humanities scholarship over the last decade or so, an extensive...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marian Eide Contemporary Irish poetry is producing a tradition of memorial to the Famine years of the 1840s. Countering purist versions of Irish identity as Catholic, indigenous, and rural, this body of work is provoked by Famine memory to explore Irishness as diasporic and widely transnational...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Jeannie Im The role of landscape in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish novels has been overshadowed by the critical emphasis on her representations of the Anglo-Irish big house. In contrast to this critical trend, this article argues that Bowen’s Irish landscapes stage questions of national identity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Anna Teekell By reading Samuel Beckett’s famously “unreadable” novel Watt (1953) in context as a novel of the Irish Emergency, the neutral Irish Free State’s euphemism for World War II, this essay argues that Watt ’s unreadability and encodedness are embodiments of the languages of post-traumatic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that he has fled but that has also produced him. Both thinkers offer similar accounts of how English colonialism affects the consciousness of the colonized, producing the sort of elitist disdain we see in Gabriel as well as the ideal of an “authentic” Irish culture typically mobilized to critique him...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 347–370.
Published: 01 September 2018
... upon a paradoxical construction of Scotland as both a primitive colonial hinterland and an utterly familiar, necessary component of British identity in the wake of Irish independence. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 archipelago modernism oceanic studies Scotland Virginia Woolf...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 224–254.
Published: 01 June 2011
... that the nascent Sinn Féin party would
best advance the cause of Irish independence in the post-Parnell era.
You ask me what I would substitute for parliamentary agitation
in Ireland. I think the Sinn Féin policy would be more effec-
tive. Of course I see that its success would...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 47–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with regional
literatures all over the British and Irish archipelago, including Scottish,
Welsh, and regional English, and with regional writers from America, such
as Robert Frost. The literary devolution that comprises the largely untold
story of twentieth-century “English” literature suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2001
... studies, The Tower, a collection traditionally read within the context
of “British” high modernism, offers a tempting point of entry. Published
in 1928,1 The Tower contains poems mostly written during the nine-year
period that saw the drafting of the Irish Declaration of Independence in
1919...
View articletitled, Writing Out (of) Chaos: Constructions of History in Yeats’s “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” and “Meditations in Time of Civil War”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 318–340.
Published: 01 September 2010
...-as-universe; rather, they always “belong somewhere else”
(Heat 115). As Bowen writes of her Anglo Irish heroine Stella Rodney
in The Heat of the Day, “The times, she had been told in her youth on all
sides, were without precedent—but then, so was her own experience: she
had not lived before” (24...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 285–310.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Ireland, the partially sighted Molly
serves as a metaphor for the colonized country, and Molly hospitalized for
madness represents the postcolonial state. But most poignantly of all, Molly
is also a contemporary Irishwoman, a damsel turned to hag by the post
colonial Irish male, and her experience...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in terms of the maritime histories, sea migrations, and coastal ecologies that link it with the rest of the Irish island, the other British Isles, and the world. In the poems of Seamus Heaney, for example, coasts, marshlands, fishing, and seaward visions serve collectively as a means of disarming binarism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Irish”
(Poems1 589). By his own account, Yeats struck out in this new poetic
direction largely at the urging of the returned Fenian exile John O’Leary,
even though such a move meant leaving behind “Arcady and the India
of romance,” which up until then he had “preferred to all countries...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of Irish particularities that emerge in response, and that become universalized as different versions of “Irishness.” After the first six episodes, Ulysses moves beyond the formal innovation of interior monologue, and we should thus expect subsequent episodes, including “Cyclops,” to challenge...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... The colonial question was evidently much in her thoughts when she arrived in Cambridge, and one voice in particular would play on her mind all day: In a certain account by Padraic Colum [ sic ] of Irish storytelling, “Hindered characters,” he remarked parenthetically, “seldom have mothers in Irish stories...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... In recent years, a considerable amount of scholarship, including Morin’s previous book, Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness (2010), and McNaughton’s essays in several venues, has been dedicated to the often vexed relationship between the writer and his homeland. Much work has been done...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 June 2013
... an important and provocative theory about a tendency to break that
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silence: Wilde became an iconic “Irish rebel” and was “nationalised as
a figure affirming difference” by those for whom he could serve as a
“disruptive figure of anti-colonial resistance” (4). In other words, Wilde’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 391–413.
Published: 01 December 2005
... James Joyce than W. B. Yeats.
Before Stephen can make this transformation, then, he must reconcile
himself with the preeminent Irish writer of the previous generation.
Stephen engages Yeats directly and indirectly throughout Ulysses, con
sciously pondering the phrase “love’s bitter...
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