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"Patterns of the Possible": National Imaginings and Queer Historical (Meta)Fictions in Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys
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For example, Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow as mentioned in this paper, and Ireland is too deep for me, Stevie, he said. Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe.Abstract:
— When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe. — Too deep for me, Stevie, he said. But a man’s country comes first. Ireland first, Stevie. You can be a poet or a mystic after. — Do you know what Ireland is? asked Stephen with cold violence. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manread more
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (review)
TL;DR: Chung et al. as discussed by the authors present a history and theory reader of the New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, focusing on early film history and multi-media.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
TL;DR: In the context of scholarly re-evaluations of James Joyce's relation to the literary revival in Ireland at the start of the twentieth century, the authors examines the significance of W.B. Yeats to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Romancing the Postmodern@@@Comedy: The Mastery of Discourse@@@The Adulteress's Child: Authorship and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
TL;DR: Romancing the Postmodern as mentioned in this paper exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre, and highlights what is unique to postmodernism about the definition of history, and reintroduces the previously hidden figure of woman in the light of new gender definitions.
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Current JJ Checklist (100)
TL;DR: The one hundredth Checklist as discussed by the authors is dedicated to the memory of Alan M. Cohn, originator of the Checklist, and to the many contributors who, through the years, have made the Checklists a comprehensive account of worldwide Joyceana.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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The Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as mentioned in this paper, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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The Wretched of the Earth
TL;DR: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as mentioned in this paper is a classic of post-colonization political analysis, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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The Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm,Terence Ranger +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored examples of this process of invention -the creation of Welsh Scottish national culture, the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the origins of imperial ritual in British India and Africa, and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own.