Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from September 2003

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from September 2003

Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and the subject of Eurocentrism.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... In Strange Country Seamus Deane argues convincingly that the Irish writer Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a 'foundational text for a particular description of a contrast and a contest between tradition and...

Tales of a nation: territorial pragmatism in Elizabeth Grant, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson.
September 22, 2003... Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (1797-1885) was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Scotland and England. She spent some time in India, where she married an Anglo-Irish landowner, Colonel Henry Smith. The couple moved to Ireland in 1830....

'Black Murphy': Claude McKay and Ireland.
September 22, 2003... Claude McKay is almost invariably and often exclusively categorized by his North American critics as a participant in the Harlem Renaissance, the extraordinary burgeoning of African-American cultural expression of the 1920s and early 1930s....

Tragedy, history, and myth: William Trevor's Fools of Fortune.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Even among the best of its kind, William Trevor's Fools of Fortune (1984) stands out as a Big House novel of singular complexity and scope. In this richly allusive work, the story of the house at Kilneagh between 1918 and 1983 is fashioned as a...

'They raigne ouer change, and doe their states maintaine': change, stasis, and postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness's Mutabilitie.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... ... all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet rightly wayd They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length again, Doe worke their owne perfection so by...

'Blitzophrenia: Brendan Kennelly's post-colonial vision.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... The poetry of Brendan Kennelly is principally characterized by various degrees and notes of resistance. From his earliest poems in the late 1950s to his latest collection Martial Art (2003), Kennelly has sought to establish a poetic...

'Slightly out of synch': Joycean strategies in Ciaran Carson's The Twelfth of Never.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... That the influence of James Joyce on contemporary Irish poets has come to eclipse that of W. B. Yeats has been gaining much critical currency in recent years. If Robert Garratt's 1986 study (1) limits this influence to thematic concerns,...

Echo and coincidence in John Banville's Eclipse.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... John Banville's Eclipse (2000) might appear at first sight less ambitious in scope and purpose than the preceding works of what already constitutes a considerable opus. After the tetralogy devoted to astronomy and scientific knowledge,...

'Does a man die at your feet ...': gender, history, and representation in The Catastrophist.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Ronan Bennett's 1998 novel The Catastrophist (London: Review) takes place in an African milieu at a key historical moment of decolonization and of cynical neo-colonial manipulation. Set principally in 1959-60 in the then Belgian Congo, The...

Review essay: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. 4 and 5, and the invention of medieval women (1).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The publication of the long awaited fourth and fifth volumes of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing would seem to mark the moment when female voices are accepted and celebrated in 'mainstream' history and literature. Women and their...

Review essay: 'a drift of chosen females?': The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. 4 and 5.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... When Seamus Deane, as General Editor, set out his aims for the original volumes of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, he suggested that there was a story encompassed within the work which was, 'hospitable to all the micro-narratives that...

IASIL bibliography bulletin for 2002.
September 22, 2003... A couple of years into the new millennium we see the Bibliography Sub-committee still working as hard as ever to produce the IASIL Bibliography. This is the sixth year in which I have functioned as Chairman; having been responsible for the...

IASIL bibliography for 2002.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2003... General Studies ADAM, Frank, DE BOECK, Lieve, MESKENS, Ann, et al., eds., "Ierse Poezie / Irish Poetry', in de brakkemhond, Fall, 76, pp. 6-130. [In Dutch, an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry]. ANBINDER, Tyler, 'From Famine to...

Thomas Keymer, Sterne, the Moderns, and The Novel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thomas Keymer, Sterne, the Moderns, and The Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 236 pages. GBP 45.00. Marcus Walsh, editor, Laurence Sterne. London: Longman, 2002. 232 pages. GBP 19.99. What manner of book is Tristram Shandy?...

Michael Boss & Eamon Maher (editors), Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Michael Boss & Eamon Maher (editors), Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century. Dublin: Veritas, 2003. 234 pages. EUR 19.75. Michael Boss and Irene Gilsenan Nordin (editors), Nordic...

Maria Kurdi and Antal Bokay (editors), Focus: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Maria Kurdi and Antal Bokay (editors), Focus: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies. Pecs: University of Pecs, 2002. 149 pages. No price given. Michael Boss and Irene Gilsenan Nordin (editors), Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. I....

James Whyte, History, Myth and Ritual in the Fiction of John McGahern: Strategies of Transcendence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. 271 pages. USD 109. The publication of a second book-length study in English of John McGahern's fiction illustrates his growing stature on the Irish literary landscape, a position which was confirmed...

Christine Van Boheemen-Saaf and Colleen Lamos (editors), European Joyce Studies 10: Masculinities in Joyce: Postcolonial Constructions.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Amsterdam and Atlanta GA: Rodopi B.V., 2001. 262 pages. No price given. This collection of essays endeavours to bring Joyce studies in the future towards a greater inquiry into the constructions of masculinity. As the subject of...

Helen M. Burke, Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theatre, 1712-1784.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. No price given. Helen Burke's exhaustive study of eighteenth-century Dublin theatre riots will do much to re-focus attention upon central issues of spectacle, power, and property...

List of books received.
September 22, 2003... Barakat, Liliane (editor), Geospheres: Annales de Geographie. Beyrouth: Universite, Saint-Joseph. Volume 21-22 (2000-2001). 259 pages. No price given. Boland, Rosita, Dissecting the Heart. Oldcastle, Co. Meath: The Gallery Press, 2003. 46...