"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse"
Subtitle: negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies
By: Eugene O'Brien.
Series: Reimagining Ireland -- 1
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9783039115396
Subjects: National characteristics, Irish; Discourse analysis; Ireland -- Civilization; Ireland -- In literature; Ireland -- In mass media; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction negotiating texts and contexts; title: Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development; title: The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf; title: The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes; title: "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners; title: The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners; title: "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness; title: "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture; title: "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre; title: Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local; title: "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.