ISBN:
9783034302708
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9783034302708
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9783035300833
Language:
English
Pages:
334 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Reimagining Ireland v. 42
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Ireland : Encounters Across Cultures
DDC:
303.48/2417
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This collection looks beyond Ireland metaphorically as well as geographically, moving beyond nationalism towards the culturally diverse, beyond a bilingual Ireland to a polyvocal one, beyond the imagined community towards a virtual one, beyond a territorial Ireland to an excentric one. The focus is on outsiders, ranging from Colm Toibin's subversion of establishment norms to Paul Muldoon's immersion in Jewish discourse to John Banville's extensions of the parameters of Irishness to the Lass of Aughrim finding a new role through her exclusion from the domestic hearth. The contributors to the vo
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction 1; Part I Irish Texts and Foreign Impulse 9; Charles I. Armstrong Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves: Pursuing the 'Japanese Ef fect' in Irish Poetry 11; Billy Gray 'Less like marching, more like meditation': Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur 31; Åke Persson Recalibrating the Mind: Globalization, Viticulture, Wine-Tasting and Change in Kate O'Riordan's The Memory Stones 53; Carmen Zamorano Llena Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland 85
Description / Table of Contents:
Róisín Keys 'Why is a gramophone like a parrot?': Intermediality and (Inter)cultural Identity in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa 101Part II Re-Turning Narration 121; Anne Karhio 'Immram', 'Haggadah' and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in Paul Muldoon's Poetry 123; Martin Shaw Warning Signs and Ref lexivity in Nan Joyce's Anti-Traveller Protest Story 139; Lene Yding Pedersen Cultural Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Colum McCann's Zoli 159; Part III States of Suspension 179
Description / Table of Contents:
Ruben Moi 'Drawn by the colour and light': Ekphrases and Aesthetics in the Poetics of Derek Mahon 181Gerald Porter Distant Transformations: The Shifting Topologies of a Diaspora Song 197; Joakim Wrethed 'Horribly pleasurable transgression': Metaphor, Theology and Evil in John Banville's The Book of Evidence 217; Part IV Borders and Cross-Cultural Encounters 241; Hedda Friberg-Harnesk Encounters Across Borders in a European Arena: John Banville's Kepler and Carl-Henning Wijkmark's Dacapo 243; Britta Olinder Cross-Cultural Encounters and Clashes in John Hewitt's Work 267
Description / Table of Contents:
Anders Olsson Walk the Line: Experience and Interpretation in Colm Tóibín's Bad Blood 291Ronald Paul Frederick Engels and the International Significance of Irish History 311; Notes on Contributors 327; Index 331
Note:
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Available via World Wide Web
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