Titlebook: National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature; Unbecoming Irishness Luz Mar González-Arias Book 2017 The Editor(s)

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Understanding the Imperfect in John McGahern’s First and Last Novelsnbecoming traits or defects of Irishness. To illustrate this ‘incompleteness’ of Irish national identity, this essay uses examples from John McGahern’s first and last novels: . (1963) and . (2002). The former will be used as a backdrop to explore the roots of, and reasons for, this incompleteness an

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Psychological Resilience in Emma Donoghue’s ,umber of literary prizes.. This hit novel, the story of the survival of a captive mother and her child under appalling circumstances and their later adjustment to ‘real’ life, has attracted readers worldwide, mostly driven by the apparent connection of the plot with the actual experiences of long ca

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Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoons writing combines with citational practices that range from conventional quotation through deliberate . quotation to outright parody. These, together with the referential instability in his writing, and the tension between emplacement and deracination on which his poems seem to thrive, have long ma

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Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetryar story. The last 20 years have resulted in a radical change in Ireland’s social and cultural fabric that is reflected in its writing, art and built environment. Its capital, Dublin, has been the site of particular shifts in fortune during these years, and its evolution, both as a built space and a

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Irish Drinking Culture on the Screenession of Irishness, particularly on the screen. The analysis is prompted by an attempt to fathom reasons for the prevalence of the trope of the Irish boozer to the detriment of other, seemingly more seminal, signs of collective Irish identity such as those related to sexual politics. Thus, whereas

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