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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).
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009)
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009): Compiled and introduced by Louise Walsh
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
Counterfactuals I’d Rather Not Contemplate: 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?
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
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
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
“[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise”: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry
[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
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
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
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.
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
“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
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
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
Posted inArticles Issue 2 2010
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
Posted inInterviews Issue 2 2010
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
“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
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
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
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
“Why Don’t You Write About America?”
Frank O'Connor's Representations of Relations between Ireland and America
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
Irish republicans in interwar New York
Irish republicans in interwar New York
Posted inArticles Issue 1 2009
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
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)
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews
Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star