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...
Posterity
In his Preface to Due Considerations (2007), John Updike tells us that when he was a very young man, he yearned to become a professional writer so that his ideas might join the “printed material that... Read More...
Winner of the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize
In “Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five,” Susanne Vees-Gulani proffers a systematic analysis of the explo... Read More...
Mac Donnell, Kevin, and R. Kent Rasmussen, eds. Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Bloomsbury, 2016.
The recent emergence of Mark Twain’s discussion-style autobiography has helped to pre... Read More...
Ellerhoff, Steve Gronert. Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Routledge, 2016.
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff’s incisive exploration of the short fiction of Kurt Vonnegu... Read More...
Matterson, Stephen. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity. Bloomsbury, 2014.
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity is an exploration of Melville’s representations of selfhood, identity and self-fashioning in moderni... Read More...