Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, 2014 IAAS Annual Conference
There is a famous story about Lyndon Johnson’s White House. In some versions, ... Read More...
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 B... Read More...
One of the truisms of American studies seems to be the intrepid historylessness of the United States. De Tocqueville observed that democracy tended to... Read More...
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 di... Read More...
American author Carson McCullers visited Ireland three times. The first two visits were to the ancestral home of Anglo-Irish novelist and short story ... Read More...
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 Ameri... Read More...
Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011.
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Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
In recent years there has been a gro... Read More...
“[…] 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).
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 Ló... Read More...
Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
The question of abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ poetry... Read More...
Welcome to the second issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies.
This issue features new work from a... Read More...
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.
Piya Chatterjee is an Associate Professor of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Women’s Studies at University of California, Riv... Read More...
Nathanael O'Reilly
Critics often describe Walt Whitman as America’s national poet, and many have concerned themselves with how Whitman came to hold... Read More...
Johannah Caitriona Duffy is an AHRC Research Fellow in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is currently w... Read More...