"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Series:Reimagining Ireland ; v. 1.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction negotiating texts and contexts
  • Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development
  • The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf
  • The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes
  • "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners
  • The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners
  • "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness
  • "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture
  • "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre
  • Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local
  • "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.