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The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the roles that literary journals play in twenty-first century Irish literature, by considering the styles of writing they facilitate, the wider cultural and publishing environment, and the reflections of publishers, editors and... Read More about The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines.

Freedom from language: The life and work of Rachel Cusk (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

A new book explores how Rachel Cusk’s writing illustrates a conflict between restlessness and stasis – an attention to the ways in which time pauses and passes

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.

Introduction: Women writing work (2023)
Journal Article

“I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”Footnote1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner. The idea of a world without work might well jar with ou... Read More about Introduction: Women writing work.

Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism (2022)
Journal Article

The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism of influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach mode... Read More about Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism.

Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds (2021)
Journal Article

Irish Literature in Transition 1980–2020, edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds, is the final volume in a series of six, which begin with the year 1700 and conclude in 2020. The series is a monumental feat of scholarship overseen by the general edi... Read More about Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds.