In Cecelia Ahern’s The Book of Tomorrow (2009) and Anne Dunlop’s Enchanting Alice (2008), the Irish Big House Motif serves as a form of intertextuality that can be reflective of the impact of the past on the perception of self, place, and history per se. In this respect, the meanings attached to the Big House and the rural can be read through the lens of intertextual links with discourses which reveal a complex pattern of indoctrination and inherent structures that constitute the basis for regulatory paradigms of self perception in history marked by discursively defined social and gender stratification. It is argued that these significations act as cultural referents revealing the relationship between the existing personal/cultural goals, d...
This project examines how female metaphors are used to justify, resist and transform the impact of c...
The power of images has played a fundamental role in the projects of both modernity and archaeology....
Both Gothic and postcolonial theory centre on the self and the other, and on the relationships of do...
The End of Decline provides a new critical framework for Anglo-Irish literary representations of the...
In much of the writing of twentieth century Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, houses, and in parti...
Cosy aphorisms such as “home is where the heart is” have always suggested a universal understanding ...
In Ireland, the "home" has a long tradition as a powerful spatial signifier, capable of expressing ...
In Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation (1994), the house, a microcosm for the nation, along w...
In Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man the representation of the Irish nation is c...
Six major motifs from ancient Celtic narratives and sagas recur thematically as myth-forming structu...
This thesis explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literatu...
The paper discusses the connections between gender, colonialism and nationalism by focussing on the ...
I trace the progressive revision of the traditional symbol of “woman” in Irish literature throughout...
The central concern of "Ireland: Space, Text, Time" is to explore the diverse ways in which discours...
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women’s lives. Using three case s...
This project examines how female metaphors are used to justify, resist and transform the impact of c...
The power of images has played a fundamental role in the projects of both modernity and archaeology....
Both Gothic and postcolonial theory centre on the self and the other, and on the relationships of do...
The End of Decline provides a new critical framework for Anglo-Irish literary representations of the...
In much of the writing of twentieth century Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, houses, and in parti...
Cosy aphorisms such as “home is where the heart is” have always suggested a universal understanding ...
In Ireland, the "home" has a long tradition as a powerful spatial signifier, capable of expressing ...
In Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation (1994), the house, a microcosm for the nation, along w...
In Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man the representation of the Irish nation is c...
Six major motifs from ancient Celtic narratives and sagas recur thematically as myth-forming structu...
This thesis explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literatu...
The paper discusses the connections between gender, colonialism and nationalism by focussing on the ...
I trace the progressive revision of the traditional symbol of “woman” in Irish literature throughout...
The central concern of "Ireland: Space, Text, Time" is to explore the diverse ways in which discours...
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women’s lives. Using three case s...
This project examines how female metaphors are used to justify, resist and transform the impact of c...
The power of images has played a fundamental role in the projects of both modernity and archaeology....
Both Gothic and postcolonial theory centre on the self and the other, and on the relationships of do...