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Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2012
Poetry Collections
- Anne Fitzgerald, Beyond the Sea (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2012).
- Eamon Grennan, But the Body (Gallery 2012);
John Montague, Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2012), 544pp.
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Fiction (Short stories &
Novels)
- John Banville, Ancient Lights (Viking Press 2012), q.pp.
- Benjamin Black, Vengeance (London: Mantle 2012), 313pp.
- Mary Costello, The China Factory (Dublin: The Stinging Fly Press 2012), 156pp.
- Roddy Doyle, Two Pints (London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Random House 2012), 96pp.
- Claire Kilroy, The Devil I Know (London: Faber & Faber 2012), 361pp.
- Kathleen MacMahon, This Is How It Ends (London: Sphere 2012), 400pp.
- Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Shelter of Neighbours (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2012), 265pp. [stories].
- Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, The Shelbourne Ultimatum (Penguin Ireland 2012), 414pp.
- Keith Ridgway, Hawthorn & Child (London: Granta 2012), 288pp.
- Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland/Lilliput Press 2012), 156pp.
Drama (Plays & Collections)
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Autobiography & Memoir
- Clara Cullen, ed., The Upturning World: Elsie Henry’s Irish Wartime Diaries (Dublin: IAP 2012).
- David Norris, A Kick Against the Pricks: the Autobiography of David Norris (Transworld Publishers Ltd. 2012), 420pp.
- Mary O’Rourke, Just Mary: A Memoir (Dublin Gill & Macmillan 2012), 243pp.
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Biography (Literary & Historical)
- John Downing, Enda Kenny: The Unlikely Taoiseach (Paperweight 2012), 308pp.
- Marilyn Richtarik, Stewart Parker: A Life (OUP 2012), 448pp. [ill.].
- Mary C. Sullivan, The Path of Mercy: the Life of Catherine McAuley (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 540pp. ill.
- Robert Tobin, The Minority Voice: Hubert Butler and Southern Irish Protesantism (OUP 2012), 320pp.
Miscellaneous Writings
- Colm Tóibín, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families (London: Viking [Penguin] 2012), 346pp. [essays on W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Brian Moore, Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle with Hugo Hamilton, Thomas Mann, Juan Luis Borges, Hart Crane, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, James Baldwin, and Barack Obama]
Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
- Garry Bannister & David Sowby, trans., The Islander, By Tomás O’Crohan (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2012), 314pp.
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Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
- Fran Brearton & Alan Gillis, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford: OUP 2012), 743pp.
- Sinéad Gleeson, ed., Silver Threads of Hope (Dublin: New Island Press 2012) [stories for Console - the suicide prevention charity - contrib. by Kevin Barry, Greg Baxter, Dermot Bolger, John Boyne, Declan Burke, John Butler, Trevor Byrne, Emma Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy, Christine-Dwyer Hickey, Declan Hughes, Arlene Hunt, Colm Keegan, John Kelly, Claire Kilroy, Pat McCabe, Colum McCann, John McKenna, Belinda McKeon, Mike McCormack, Siobhan Mannion, Peter Murphy, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Phillip O Ceallaigh, Keith Ridgway, William Wall and Mary Costello]
Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 [Cambridge Studies in Romanticism] (Cambridge UP 2012), xi, 296pp. [rep. as pb. 2014].
- Sandrine Brisset & Noreen Doody, eds., Voicing Dissent: New Perspectives in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2012), xiii, 258pp.[see contents]
- Irene De Angelis, The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 216pp. [treats of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad Morrissey and Joseph Woods].
- Eric Falci, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (Cambridge UP 2012), ix, 233pp.[see contents].
- Geraldine Higgins, Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012),
236pp.
- Anne Kane, Constructing Irish National Identity: Discourse and Ritual during the Land War, 1879-1882 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 298pp.
- Kelly Matthews, The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 224pp. ill.
- Anne MacCarthy, Definitions of Irishness in the ‘Library of Ireland’ Literary Anthologies [Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 34; gen. ed. Eamon Maher] (Oxford: Peter Lang 2012), xiv, 257pp.
- George O’Brien, The Irish Novel 1960-2010 (Cork UP 2012), 254pp.[see contents].
- Ian R. Walsh, Experimental Irish Theatre: After W.B. Yeats
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 216pp.
- John Waters, Was it For This: Why Ireland Lost the Plot (Transworld Ireland 2012), 312pp.
- Fran Brearton & Alan Gillis, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry [Oxford Handbooks] (Oxford: OUP 2012), 723pp.[see contents].
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Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
- Tudor Balinisteanu,
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 256pp.
- R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances [Clark Lectures, Cambridge 2009] (Oxford: OUP 2011), 256pp.
- Deirdre McFeely, Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 228pp.
- William Martin, Joyce and the Science of Rhythm
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 238pp.
- Catherine Morris, Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival (Four Courts Press, 2012), 368pp.
- Eve Patten, Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s The Wartime Fiction (Cork UP 2012), 242pp.
- Catriona Ryan, Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre: A Paleo-postmodern Perspective (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2012), 255pp.
- Denis Sampson, Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist (Oxford UP 2012), 194pp.
- John Strachan & Claire Nally, Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922 (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 328pp.
- Eibhear Walshe, Oscar’s Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland (Cork University Press 2012), 170pp.
- Franca Ruggeiri & Anne Fogarty, eds., Polymorphic Joyce: Papers from The Third Joyce Graduate Conference, Dublin 22-23 January 2010 (Roma: Edizioni Q 2010), 179pp.[see contents].
Language & Folklore Studies
- James Kelly & Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, ed., Irish and English: Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), q.pp. [incls. Marc Caball on Bishop Bedell].
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Religion & Philosophy
- Mary McAleese, Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law (Blackrock: Columbia Press 2012), 189pp.
Media & Entertainment
- Michael Cronin, Translation in the Digital Age (London; Routledge 2012), 176pp.
- Noel McLaughlin & Martin McLoone, Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2 (Dublin: IAP 2012), 338pp.
- Carol MacKeogh and Díóg O’Connell, Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland Since the 1990s (Cork UP 2012), 176pp.
Arts & Architecture
- Christine Casey & Conor Lucey, editors, Decorative Plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: Ornament and the early modern Interior
(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 256pp. col. ill.
Historical Studies: General
- Jane G. V. McGaughey, Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 (Alberta UP 2012), qpp.
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Historical Studies: 20th Century
- Andrew Bielenberg & Raymond Ryan, An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence (London: Routledge 2012), 282pp.
- Richard English, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA [orig. 2003] (Pan Reprints 2012), 544pp.
- Diarmaid Ferriter, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (Profile Books 2012), 704[823]pp. [ded. Catríona Crowe].
- Pat Finnegan, The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners During the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 160pp. [Patrick Finnegan and Constable Michael Muldowney
were the unjustly sentenced men].
- Anne Matthews, Dissidents: Irish Republican Women 1923-41 (Dublin: Mercier Press 2012), 256pp.
- David McKitterick,
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict (Penguin 2012), 416pp.
- W. J. McCormack, Dublin 1916: The French Connection (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2012), q.pp.
- Mark Hennessy, Irish London During the Troubles (Blackrock: IAP 2012), q.pp. [London editor of The Irish Times].
- Brian M. Walker, A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 272pp.
Historical Studies: Crisis Ireland
- Shane Ross & Nick Webb, The Untouchables (Penguin Ireland 2012), 298pp.
- Edward Daly, A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 304pp. ill.
- Aidan Clerkin & Brendan Clerkin, ed., A Road Less Travelled: Tales of the Irish Missionaries, , with a foreword by President Mary McAleese (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2012), 256pp., ill.
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Natural History & Topography
- John Crowley, William J. Smyth & Mike Murphy, eds., The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (Cork UP 2012), 728pp. [International Educational Services Irish-published best book award of Bord Gáis, Nov. 2012].
Politics, Economics & Society
- Elaine A. Byrne, Political Corruption in Ireland 1922-2010: A Crooked Harp? (Manchester UP 2012), 273pp.
Northern Ireland/Ulster
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Gender Studies
- Debbie Ging, Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012), 264pp.
- D. A. J. MacPherson, Women and the Irish Nation: Gender, Culture and Irish Identity, 1890-1914 (Basingstoke: Plagrave Macmillan 2012), 224pp.
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Reference, Guides & Bibliography
- Pádraig Ó Riain, A Dictionary of Irish Saints [rep. edn.] ( Dublin : Four Courts Press 2012), 660pp. [1,000+ entries].
Digital Publications
- Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, ed. Elizabeth Grundy, et al.
(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press 2012) [incls. Henrietta Battier, I. S. Anna Liddiard, Adelaide O’Keeffe, Elizabeth Ryves, Melesina Trench, et al.].
- British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries, ed. Melissa Hardy, et al. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press 2012). [100K bytes incl. 4K facs. pages of Maud Gonne[port.] et mult. al.]
Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
| Eric Falci, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (Cambridge UP 2012), ix, 233pp. CONTENTS:
Introduction; 1. Refashioning Irish poetry, 1966-1974; 2. Triangular Muldoon; 3. McGuckian’s histories; 4. Carson’s city; 5. Ní Dhomhnaill along the spine; Conclusion: “Recent Irish Poetry”. |
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| Sandrine Brisset & Noreen Doody, eds., Voicing Dissent: New Perspectives in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2012), xiii, 258pp. CONTENTS: VERSE AND SUBVERSION - Sandrine Brisset, ‘“Stabbed up the line’: myth and dissent in the poetry of Brendan Kennelly;’; Amy Galvin,, ‘The passing of time in Thomas Kinsella’s early poetry’; Shannon Hipp, ‘Cribs and collaborations in the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’; Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, ‘Marginal figures and subversion in the poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh’; Simon Workman, ‘“Of them but not of them”: Louis MacNiece and the “Thirties Poets”’. DISSENT ON STAGE - Sheila McCormick, ‘Tribunal theatre and the voice of dissent as seen in Bloody Sunday: scenes from the Saville Inquiry’; Ian Walsh, ‘Exploding the kitchen comedy: Maurice Meldon’s Purple path to the poppy field’; Brian Gourley, ‘A brief consideration of dissent in two reformation moralities: Love feigned and unfeigned and Three laws’; Irina Ruppo Malone, ‘Irish nationalist [mis]readings of Ibsen: Padraig Pearse, Lennox Robinson and Thomas MacDonagh’. POSTCOLONIALISM AND IRISH IDENTITY - Jessica Dougherty-McMichael, ‘Murder in the margin: descent and dissent in Patrick McCabe’s Winterwood and Sherman Alexie’s Indian killer’; Katherine O’Keefe, ‘Serious fancy: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and the literary fairy tale in colonial discourse’; Stefanie Lehner, ‘Postcolonial trauma - postmodern recovery? Gender, nation and trauma in contemporary Irish and Scottish fiction’. REBELLIOUS FEMININITY - Sharon Tighe-Mooney, ‘“What Katie did”: subversive dissent in Kate O’Brien’s The ante-room’; Graham Price, ‘“Mastered yet controlling what they were mastered by”: John McGahern’s Amongst women and the female dandy’; Anthea E. Cordner, ‘“Anything neurotic, exotic, experimental or new”: trauma and representation in women’s writing on the troubles’; Lori Bennett, ‘The other side of the story: femininity, sexuality and patriarchical Ireland in the short stories of Mary Lavin, Clare Boylan and Emma Donoghue’; Libe García Zarranz, ‘Intertextuality, parody and jouissance in Emma Donoghue’s Dissenting fairy tales’. POP-CULTURE AND HEROIC MISFITS. Michael Flanagan, ‘Folk devils and moral panic: sedition, subversion and sensation in Victorian popular culture’; Jenny O’Connor, ‘Disobeying Gilles Deleuze: is Quentin Tarantino the voice of dissent?’; Sorcha de Brún, ‘“Sinne Laochra Fáil’: heroism and heroes in the work of Pádraig Ó Cíobháin’; Leo Keohane, ‘Captain Jack White, DSO - anarchist and proleptic postructuralist’. |
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| George O’Brien, The Irish Novel 1960-2010 (Cork UP 2012), xxix, 224pp. CONTENTS - 1960: The country girls / Edna O’Brien; 1961: The hollow ball / Sam Hanna Bell; 1962: The fugitives / John Broderick; 1963: Thy tears might cease / Michael Farrell; 1964: How it is / Samuel Beckett; 1965: The emperor of ice-cream / Brian Moore; 1966: Langrishe, go down / Aidan Higgins; 1967: The third policeman / Flann O’Brien; 1968: As towns with fire / Anthony C. West; 1969: Strumpet city / James Plunkett; 1970: Troubles / J.G. Farrell; 1971: Black list, section H / Francis Stuart; 1972: The captains and the kings / Jennifer Johnston; 1973: An end to flight / Vincent Banville; 1974: Gone in the head / Ian Cochrane; 1975: Stamping ground / Maurice Leitch; 1976: The stepdaughter / Caroline Blackwood; 1977: Proxopera / Benedict Kiely; 1978: Bogmail / Patrick McGinley; 1979: The pornographer / John McGhern; 1980: No country for young men / Julia O’Faolain; 1981: Kepler / John Banville; 1982: In night's city / Dorothy Nelson; 1983: Cal / Bernard MacLaverty; 1984: A curious street / Desmond Hogan; 1985: The killeen / Mary Leland; 1986: Open cut / J.M. O’Neill; 1987: Work and play / Carlo Gebler; 1988: The silence in the garden / William Trevor; 1989: Motherland / Timothy O’Grady; 1990: The journey home / Dermot Bolger; 1991: The last shot / Hugo Hamilton; 1992: The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe; 1993: Paddy Clarke ha ha ha / Roddy Doyle; 1994: A goat's song / Dermot Healy; 1995: Hood / Emma Donoghue; 1996: Reading in the dark / Seamus Deane; 1997: One day as a tiger / Anne Haverty; 1998: The salesman / Joseph O’Connor; 1999: The international / Glenn Patterson; 2000: The pretender / Mary Morrissy; 2001: The blue tango / Eoin McNamee; 2002: Authenticity / Deidre Madden; 2003: The parts / Keith Ridgway; 2004: The master /Colm Toibin; 2005: A long, long way / Sebastian Barry; 2006: Julius Winsome / Gerard Donovan; 2007: The gathering / Anne Enright; 2008: Netherland / Joseph O’Neill; 2009: Let the world spin / Colum McCann; 2010: Skippy dies / Paul Murray. |
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| Fran Brearton & Alan Gillis, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry [Oxford Handbooks] (Oxford: OUP 2012), 723pp. CONTENTS: Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Contributors; PT I: POETRY AND THE REVIVAL. Matthew Campbell, ‘Recovering Ancient Ireland’ [3]; Warwick Gould, ‘Yeats and Symbolism’ [20]; Michael O’Neill, ‘Yeats, Clarke, and The Irish Poet’s Relationship With English [40]. PT II: THE POETRY OF WAR. Jim Haughey, ‘“The Roses are Torn”: Ireland’s War Poets’ [61]; Gerald Dawe, ‘“Pledged to Ireland”: The Poets and Poems of Easter 1916’ [79]; Edna Longley, ‘W. B. Yeats: Poetry and Violence’ [95]. PT III: MODERNISM AND TRADITIONALISM. Edward Larrissy, ‘Yeats, Eliot, and The Idea of Tradition’ [113]; Susan Schreibman, ‘Irish Poetic Modernism: Portrait of The Artist in Exile’ [130]; David Wheatley, ‘Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment’ [145]; Dillon Johnston, ‘Voice and Voiceprints: Joyce and Recent Irish Poetry’ [161]. PT IV: MID-CENTURY IRISH POETRY: Kit Fryatt, ‘Patrick Kavanagh’s “Potentialities”’ [181]; Tom Walker, ‘MacNeice Among His Irish Contemporaries: 1939 and 1945’ [196]; Richard Kirkland, ‘The Poetics of Partition: Poetry and Northern Ireland in the 1940s’ [210]; John Mcauliffe, ‘Disturbing Irish Poetry: Kinsella and Clarke, 1951-1962’ [225]; Jonathan Allison, ‘Memory and Starlight in Late MacNeice’ [240]. PT V: POETRY AND THE ARTS: Neil Corcoran, ‘Yeats to Heaney: Modern Irish Poetry and The Visual Arts’ [251]; Damien Keane, ‘Poetry, Music, and Reproduced Sound’ [266]; Rui Carvalho Homem, ‘“Private Relations”: Selves, Poems, and Paintings - Durcan to Morrissey’ [282]; Peter Mackay, ‘Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry and Romanticism’ [297]. PT VI: ON THE BORDERS: A FURTHER LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE QUESTION: Aodán Mac Póilin, ‘“Ghosts of Metrical Procedures”: Translations From the Irish’ [311]; Eric Falci, ‘Translation as Collaboration: Ní Dhomhnaill and Muldoon [328]’; Justin Quinn, ‘Incoming: Irish Poetry and Translation’ [341]; Paul Simpson, ‘A Stylistic Analysis of Modern Irish Poetry’ [355]. PT VII: POETRY AND POLITICS: THE 1970S AND 1980s: Heather Clark, ‘Befitting Emblems: The Early 1970s’ [373]; Shane Alcobia-Murphy, ‘“Neurosis of Sand”: Authority, Memory, and the Hunger Strike’ [387]; John Redmond, ‘Engagements With the Public Sphere in the Poetry of Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly’ [403]; Leontia Flynn, ‘Domestic Violences: Medbh McGuckian and Irish Women’s Writing in the 1980s’ [419]. PT VIII: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Gail McConnell, ‘Catholic Art and Culture: Clarke to Heaney’ [437]; Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ‘In Belfast’ [456]; Peter McDonald, ‘“Our Lost Lives”: Protestantism and Northern Irish Poetry’ [473]; Maria Johnston, ‘Walking Dublin: Contemporary Irish Poets in the City’ [497]. PT IX: THE POET AS CRITIC: Hugh Haughton, ‘The Irish Poet as Critic’ [513]; Steven Matthews, ‘The Poet as Anthologist’ [534]; Jahan Ramazani, ‘Irish Poetry and the News’ [548]. PT X: ON POETIC FORM: Alan Gillis, ‘The Modern Irish Sonnet’ [567]; Stephen Regan, ‘Irish Elegy After Yeats’ []588; John Goodby, ‘“Repeat the Changes Change the Repeats”: Alternative Irish Poetry’ [607]; Fran Brearton, ‘“The Nothing-Could-Be-Simpler Line’: Form in Contemporary Irish Poetry [629]. PT XI:ON RECENT POETRY: Catriona Clutterbuck, ‘New Irish Women Poets: The Evolution of (in)Determinacy in Vona Groarke’ [651]; Miriam Gamble, ‘‘A Potted Peace/Lily’? Northern Irish Poetry Since the Ceasefires’ [668-83]. Select Bibliography’; Index. |
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| Franca Ruggeiri & Anne Fogarty, eds., Polymorphic Joyce: Papers from The Third Joyce Graduate Conference, Dublin 22-23 January 2010 (Roma: Edizioni Q 2010), 179pp. CONTENTS: Sylvain Belluc, ‘Science, Etymology and Poetry in the “Proteus” episode of “Ulysses”[9]; Andrea Ciribuco, ‘“I’ve got the Stephen Dedalus Blues”: Joycean allusions, quotes and characters in Don DeLillo’s “Americana”’ [25]; Ann Fallon, ‘Stephen’s Ovidian Echoes in “Ulysses”’ [39]; Chih-hsien Hsieh, ‘Hark the Written Words - The Gramophone Motif in “Proteus”‘ [51]; Alison Lacivita, ‘Ecocriticism and Finnegans Wake’ [63]; Yi-peng Lai, ‘“Bloom of Flowerville”: An Agri-national Consumer [71]; Fabio Luppi, ‘Women and Race in the Last Two Chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [83]; John McCourt; ‘After Ellmann: the current state of Joyce biography’ [97]; Jonathan McCreedy, ‘An Argument for Characterology in the “Wake’s Old I.2”: HCE’s ‘Centrality’ and the “Everyman” Archetype’ [111]; Niko Pomakis, ‘Lean Unlovely English Turned Backward: Reading “Scylla & Charybdis” Hermetically’ [123]; Franca Ruggieri, ‘James Joyce: Tradition, and Individual Talent’[137]; Elizabeth Switaj, ‘Joyce, Berlitz, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language’ [151]; William Viney, ‘Reading Flotsam and Jetsam: The Significance of Waste in “Proteus”’ [165-79]. (No index.) |
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