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Title The body in pain in Irish literature and culture / Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey, Emilie Pine, editors.
Publisher Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright ©2016


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 DUE 27-05-24  Standard  Library Level 9 Annexe  Celtic FD80 DIL  

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Description xvi, 283 pages; 22 cm
ISBN 9783319313870 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
Contents Introduction: The body in pain in Irish literature and culture / Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine -- Where does It hurt? How pain makes history in early modern Ireland / Patricia Palmer -- 'Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered': masculinity, trauma and memory in early modern Ireland / Dianne Hall -- 'Those savage days of memory': John Temple and his narrative of the 1641 uprising / Sarah Covington -- Severed heads and floggings: the undermining of oblivion in Ulster in the aftermath of 1798 / Guy Beiner -- 'Tá mé ag imeacht': the execution of Myles Joyce and its afterlives / Margaret Kelleher -- Pain, trauma and memory in the Irish War of Independence: remembering and contextualizing Irish suffering / Ian Miller -- Pain, pleasure and revolution: the body in Roger Casement's writings / Michael G. Cronin -- 'Targets of shame': negotiating the Irish female migrant experience in Kathleen Nevin's You'll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle (1936) / Sinéad Wall -- 'Intertextual quotation': troubled Irish bodies and Jewish intertextual memory in Colum McCann's 'Cathal's Lake' and 'Hunger Strike' / Alison Garden -- The vulnerable body on stage: reading interpersonal violence in rape as metaphor / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Recovery and forgetting: haunting remains in Northern Irish culture / Shane Alcobia Murphy -- 'That's not so comfortable for you, is it?' The spectre of misogyny in The Fall / Caroline Magennis -- 'The art of grief': Irish women's poetry of loss and healing / Catriona Clutterbuck
Series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
Library Class Celtic FD80
Subject Irish literature -- History and criticism.
Pain in literature.
Other Author Dillane, Fionnuala, editor
McAreavey, Naomi, editor
Pine, Emilie, editor

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