Nostalgia etymologically corresponds to a longing for returning to a euphoric place or time in past. In some cases (i.e. post-traumatic states), the acuteness of nostalgic feelings is pathologically aggravated so as to lead individual to some belligerent and even delinquent conducts. This sort of a ‘malignant’ nostalgia is delineated by Patrick McCabe, a pre-eminent contemporary Irish novelist, in his most acclaimed novel, The Butcher Boy (1992). McCabe’s protagonist, the schoolboy Francie Brady, undergoes a series of traumatic incidents triggered by his dysfunctional family, hypocritical and self-centered milieu and the corrupt public institutions. This paper, suggesting that nostalgia becomes a pathology in Francie’s case, discusses the w...
In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, socio...
Nostalgia is everywhere in media today – be it films, television, ads, or social media. But what doe...
This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as...
The Butcher Boy (1992) is the third novel by Northern Irish author Patrick McCabe. It tells the stor...
Patrick McCabe\u27s novel is set in a small Irish town at the beginning of the 1960s, a turbulent ti...
”The Butcher Boy”, a novel by the Irish author Patrick McCabe, chronicles the life of a young boy na...
Bakalaura darbs ar nosaukumu „Patrika MakKeiba mūsdienu īru gotika” koncentrējas uz mūsdienu gotiskā...
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique commonly seen as a product of modernism. It is a li...
This essay considers some of the ways in which nostalgia figures in contemporary social theory as we...
Ireland is not a country unfamiliar with trauma. It is an island widely known for its history with V...
This article focuses on Richard Ford’s short story “Calling,” collected in the volume entitled A Mul...
This article contributes to debates about the theoretical coherence and historical utility of the co...
Nostalgia has been defined in multiple ways by writers, poets and artists who have incorporated it i...
This dissertation investigates the work of Irish novelist and journalist Flann O’Brien/Myles na Gopa...
Notably, Margaret Atwood prefers to call her future-oriented novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), “spe...
In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, socio...
Nostalgia is everywhere in media today – be it films, television, ads, or social media. But what doe...
This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as...
The Butcher Boy (1992) is the third novel by Northern Irish author Patrick McCabe. It tells the stor...
Patrick McCabe\u27s novel is set in a small Irish town at the beginning of the 1960s, a turbulent ti...
”The Butcher Boy”, a novel by the Irish author Patrick McCabe, chronicles the life of a young boy na...
Bakalaura darbs ar nosaukumu „Patrika MakKeiba mūsdienu īru gotika” koncentrējas uz mūsdienu gotiskā...
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique commonly seen as a product of modernism. It is a li...
This essay considers some of the ways in which nostalgia figures in contemporary social theory as we...
Ireland is not a country unfamiliar with trauma. It is an island widely known for its history with V...
This article focuses on Richard Ford’s short story “Calling,” collected in the volume entitled A Mul...
This article contributes to debates about the theoretical coherence and historical utility of the co...
Nostalgia has been defined in multiple ways by writers, poets and artists who have incorporated it i...
This dissertation investigates the work of Irish novelist and journalist Flann O’Brien/Myles na Gopa...
Notably, Margaret Atwood prefers to call her future-oriented novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), “spe...
In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, socio...
Nostalgia is everywhere in media today – be it films, television, ads, or social media. But what doe...
This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as...