Issue 5 Editorial David Coughlan Editorials Welcome to the fifth issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. Our contributions this issue include articles by Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno on the personal... Read More...
Thirty-Six-Point Perpetua: John Updike’s Personal Essays in the Later Years Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno Articles Laurence W. Mazzeno (Alvernia University) Sue Norton (Dublin Institute of Technology) Posterity In his Preface to Due Considerations (2007), John Updike tells us that when he was a very young... Read More...
Winner of the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize: Diagnosing Kurt Vonnegut: A Response to Susanne Vees-Gulani on the Subject of Slaughterhouse-Five Ciarán Kavanagh Articles Ciarán Kavanagh University College Cork In “Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five,” Susanne Vees-Gulani proffers a systematic analysis of the exp... Read More...
Review: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings, eds. Kevin McDonnell and R. Kent Rasmussen Clair A. Sheehan Reviews Review: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Edited by Kevin MacDonnell and R. Kent Rasmussen (Bloomsbury, 2016) Buy here. Clair A. Sheehan University of Limerick The recent emergence... Read More...
Review: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Miranda Corcoran Reviews Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut (Routledge, 2016) Buy here Miranda Corcoran University College Cork Steve Gronert Ellerhoff’s inci... Read More...
Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity Johanna Hoorenman Reviews Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2014) Johanna Hoorenman Utrecht University Melville: Fashioning in Modernity is an exploration of Melville’s representations of s... Read More...
