Thirty-Six-Point Perpetua: John Updike’s Personal Essays in the Later Years
Laurence W. Mazzeno (Alvernia University)
Sue Norton (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Posterity
In his Preface to Due Consideration... Read More...
Contributors – Issue 5
Miranda Corcoran received her PhD in English from University College Cork, where she also teaches American literature. Her research interests include ... Read More...
Editorial: Issue 4
In November 2014, the IAAS welcomed postgraduate and early-career scholars from across Ireland and the UK to Trinity College Dublin for the annual pos... Read More...
Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s
Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s
Rachael Alexander
University of Strathclyde
Now, it would be an over... Read More...
“No such thing as a ‘Canadian'”: Memory, Place, and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Stories
“No such thing as a ‘Canadian’”: Memory, Place, and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Stories
Kate Smyth
Trinity College Dublin
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“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers
“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers
Katie Ahern
University College Cork
Anzia Yezierska was... Read More...
The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy
The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy
Tim Groenland
Trinity College Dublin
In September 2008, Gary Lutz, autho... Read More...
“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita
“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita.
Laura Rose Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
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WTM Riches Essay Prizewinner: The Search for a Mother in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
The WTM Riches Essay Prize was established in 2004 to recognise and reward high-quality work being done by younger scholars in many of the areas that ... Read More...
Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens
Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens
Karolina Vancurová
Charles University, Prague
Edward Clarke’s Th... Read More...
Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
Review: Dara Downey, American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
Ann Patten
Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted s... Read More...
Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence
Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence
Gillian Groszewski
Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is print... Read More...
Contributors – Issue 4
Katie Ahern is a PhD candidate in the School of English, University College Cork. Her research interests include the works of Edith Wharton, Anzia Yez... Read More...
Editorial: Issue 3
Editorial
Stephen Matterson and Alex Runchman
We apologize for the belatedness of this issue of IJASonline. This is in part due to circumstances wit... Read More...
Last Vegas?
Last Vegas?
Philip McGowan
(Queen’s University Belfast)
This article, and the research out of which it springs, has a number of points of origin; i... Read More...
ALAN GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE: Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era
ALAN GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE
Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era
Robert A. Strong
Washington and Lee University
April 2... Read More...
“This is said on tiptoe”: Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy
“This is said on tiptoe”:
Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy
Áine Mahon
University College Dublin
Introduction
So we are here, knowing ... Read More...
“E Unibus Pluram”: David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation
“E Unibus Pluram”: the short story and the voices of a fragmented nation.
Ignite article, IJAS online 2
One of the truisms of American studies seems... Read More...
“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade
“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade
Jennifer Daly
Trinity College Dublin
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Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland
Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland
Rebecca Pelan
University College Dublin
American author Carson McCullers visited Ire... Read More...
Review: A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes
Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes (Oxford: OUP, 2012)
Clare Hayes-Brady
University College Dublin
A blu... Read More...
Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960.
(Princeton and Oxford: Prin... Read More...
Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010)
Hanna Bingel
Que... Read More...
Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870
“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).
Review: Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition
Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López (eds), Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition
Donna Maria Alexander
University Col... Read More...
Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) $135 262 pp
Alex Runchman
Trini... Read More...
Contributors – Issue 3
Donna Maria Alexander
Jennifer Daly
Dara Downey
Clare Hayes-Brady
Áine Mahon
Philip McGowan
Rebecca Pelan
Alex Runchman
Robert... Read More...
Editorial: Issue 2
Editorial
Philip Coleman
Welcome to the second issue of IJASonline, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies.
This ... Read More...
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009)
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009): Compiled and introduced by Louise Walsh
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm
“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm
Rubbish: Don DeLillo’s Wastelands
DeLillo’s Underworld is one of the most celebrated of all modern American novels, and perhaps the most complex. This complexity is a product of its extraordinarily precise yet oblique chronological structure, which, in its attempt to account for the entire second-half of the twentieth-century, has challenged all its readers, confused many of them, and alienated some.
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline
David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline
[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise
[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry
Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary
“Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary”: Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s Stormy Weather Performance
Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold
Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
What if the Government Schooling Campaigns (1820s-1920s) to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?
What if the Government Schooling Campaigns to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?
Contributors – Issue 2
Piya Chatterjee is an Associate Professor of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Women’s Studies at University of California, Riv... Read More...
Imagined America: Walt Whitman’s Nationalism in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Nathanael O'Reilly
Critics often describe Walt Whitman as America’s national poet, and many have concerned themselves with how Whitman came to hold... Read More...
“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America
“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America
Invented Irishness: The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor
Invented Irishness:
The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
“Why Don’t You Write About America?”
Frank O'Connor's Representations of Relations between Ireland and America
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Review: Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)
Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
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Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Contributors – Issue 1
Johannah Caitriona Duffy is an AHRC Research Fellow in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is currently w... Read More...
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