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      Richard Hargy

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      Lily Ní Dhomhnaill

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  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
  • Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994
  • Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown
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Issue 4 2015

Issue 4 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Jennifer Daly
Editorials, Issue 4 2015
In November 2014, the IAAS welcomed postgraduate and early-career scholars from across Ireland and the UK to Trinity College Dublin for the annual postgraduate symposium. Unlike previous IAAS events, the sympos... Read More...

Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s

Rachael Alexander
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Now, it would be an overstatement to insist that the art of living is exclusively under the control of women, yet it is approximately true that the social arts—conversation, cookery, dress, manners, the more gr... Read More...

“No such thing as a ‘Canadian'”: Memory, Place, and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Stories

Kate Smyth
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Introduction In Mavis Gallant’s six Linnet Muir stories, identity is continually re-constructed through memory. Paul White states that “shifts in identity are highly complex, sometimes unstable, and often have... Read More...

“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers

Katie Ahern
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American writer, most popular in the 1920s, and best known for her texts on the struggles of immigrants in America. She achieved fame in the 1910s for her efforts to accurately repr... Read More...

The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy

Tim Groenland
Articles, Issue 4 2015
In September 2008, Gary Lutz, author of several collections of short fiction, delivered a lecture entitled “The Sentence is a Lonely Place” to the students of Columbia University’s writing program in which he o... Read More...

“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita

Laura Rose Byrne
Articles, Issue 4 2015
In a 1967 interview with his former student and future annotator, Alfred Appel, Vladimir Nabokov announced, “Philosophically, I am an indivisible monist” (Strong Opinions 73). The author was responding to a lin... Read More...

The Search for a Mother in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Sarah Cullen
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Winner of the 2013 WTM Riches Essay Prize   “It seems to me that really truthful American novels would have the heroes and heroines alike looking for mothers instead . This needn’t be embarrassing. It’... Read More...

Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens

Karolina Vancurová
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Clarke, Edward. The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Edward Clarke’s The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens offers a refreshing and risky reading of these poets’ last poems... Read More...

Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Ann Patten
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Downey, Dara. American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted something exceptional about U.S. horror.  A common position holds... Read More...

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence

Gillian Groszewski
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Jenkins, Lee M. The American Lawrence. University Press of Florida, 2015. Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is printed in a stylised font that invokes the ‘Wanted’ poster... Read More...
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