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Issue 3 2014

IJASOnline Issue Three

Clare Hayes-Brady
Editorials, Issue 3 2014
We are very excited to announce that the next issue of the journal goes live on Saturday 22 November 2014, coinciding with our Postgraduate and Early Career Career Symposium, New Wave Coming. Watch this space! ... Read More...

Issue 3 Editorial

Alex Runchman
Editorials, Issue 3 2014
We apologize for the belatedness of this issue of IJAS Online. This is in part due to circumstances within our control, but mainly to do with the time taken for the editorial team to discuss changes to the Jour... Read More...
Fig. 1, Paris, Vegas

Last Vegas?

Philip McGowan
Articles, Issue 3 2014
This article, and the research out of which it springs, has a number of points of origin; it may also have more than one point of conclusion even as it argues that the current manifestation of Las Vegas could w... Read More...

Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era

Robert A. Strong
Articles, Issue 3 2014
Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, 2014 IAAS Annual Conference   There is a famous story about Lyndon Johnson’s White House.  In some versions, it was the night after Congress had passed the Voting Rights... Read More...

“This is said on tiptoe”: Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy

Áine Mahon
Articles, Issue 3 2014
Introduction So we are here, knowing they are “gone to burning hell”, she with a lie on her lips, protecting him, he with her blood on him. Perhaps Blake has what he calls songs to win them back, to make room ... Read More...
David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation

“E Unibus Pluram”: David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation

Clare Hayes-Brady
Articles, Issue 3 2014
One of the truisms of American studies seems to be the intrepid historylessness of the United States. De Tocqueville observed that democracy tended to “make each man forget his ancestors” (de Tocqueville 6), an... Read More...

“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade

Jennifer Daly
Articles, Issue 3 2014
In 1975, Richard Yates published what was widely considered to be his worst novel. Disturbing the Peace was dismissed by critics as a career-ending disaster from the writer who had published the acclaimed Revol... Read More...

Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland

Rebecca Pelan
Articles, Issue 3 2014
American author Carson McCullers visited Ireland three times. The first two visits were to the ancestral home of Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen in County Cork in May and July of 195... Read More...

Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature

Clare Hayes-Brady
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. A blurb on the back cover of Kevin J. Hayes’s A Journey Through American Literature describes the book as “like chatting with a o... Read More...

Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

Gavan Lennon
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011. Lawrence P. Jackson’s The Indignant Generation provides a... Read More...

Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

Hanna Bingel
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010. In recent years there has been a growing interest in finding new approaches to the relationship ... Read More...

Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

Dara Downey
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
“[…] 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: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition

Donna Maria Alexander
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition. Austin: U of Texas P, 2011. In 2001, Alma López’s digital collage, Our Lady appeared in an exhibition at... Read More...

Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction

Alex Runchman
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. The question of abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ poetry, and the relation that it might have with the wider world, ... Read More...
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