Author: M. Ruprecht Fadem File Type: pdf Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary. **Review Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadems The Literature of Northern Ireland offers an original, timely, and theoretical contribution to the various processes in which Irelands partition formed and fostered particularly aspects of twentieth-century Irish literature. Viewing the work of Anne Devlin, Medbh McGuckian, and Anna Burns through a distinctive postmodernist lens, Fadem offers readers an informed and insightful guide to understanding the defamiliarizing juxtapositions which characterize much Irish literary production and details how partition engendered an ever-present awareness of borders - physical, psychic and emotional - in the islands literary and cultural artifacts. - Brian O Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame, USA The Literature of Northern Ireland Spectral Borderlands is an important contribution to Irish Studies in the wake of the peace process. It enables us to revisit the work of McGuckian, Devlin, and Burns as sites of trauma. In describing these writers as inhabitants of a spectral borderland, Fadem brings new life to their work through her nuanced post-structuralist and feminist readings. She reminds us that these writers negotiations of deathly crises develop less as the romantic, heroic martyrdoms of earlier writing and more as a bordered hauntedness or despair. In Northern Irelands spectral borderland, the peace that is always running up against the memory of death is a fragile yet enduring presence. Fadems provocative readings allow us to make the important journey back into trauma so that we return all the stronger for the experience. - Michael OSullivan, Associate Professor of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Provocative, challenging, and sometimes daring, Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadems The Literature of Northern Ireland explores the unique position of the Irish writer in Northern Ireland. In attending to both historical contexts and contemporary narratives, Fadem not only invites us to consider the intersection between the creative, the critical, and the material, but also the extent to which particular forms of agency and disempowerment have shaped Irish literature. This much-needed collective assessment of the various films, plays, poems, and narratives produced by these powerful Irish women artists and writers, is sure to stir critical and political emotions, both in Ireland and internationally. - Padraig Kirwan, Senior Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK About the Author Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA.

Author: Brian Doherty File Type: pdf The Western green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.The author argues that greens share a common ideological framework but are divided over strategy. Using social movement theory and drawing on research from many countries, he shows how the green movement became more differentiated over time, as groups had to face the task of deciding what kind of action was appropriate.In the breadth of its coverage and its novel focus on the relationship between green ideas and action, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of green politics.ReviewThis book has some significant strengths a broad political imagination, a refreshing ability to draw together comparisons between different forms of green political activity, and a useful sense of the different trajectories of green movements. It also presents some engaging case-study material. - Environment and Planning A, David Featherstone, University of LiverpoolAbout the AuthorBrian Doherty is a Lecturer in Politics at Keele University, and also a member of the UK Green Party. He has published widely on green ideas, parties and movements. Previous publications include Democracy and Green Political Thought (co-edited with Marius de Geus) and Direct Action in British Environmentalism (co-edited with Ben Seel and Matthew Patterson) The Western green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.The author argues that greens share a common ideological framework but are divided over strategy. Using social movement theory and drawing on research from many countries, he shows how the green movement became more differentiated over time, as groups had to face the task of deciding what kind of action was appropriate.In the breadth of its coverage and its novel focus on the relationship between green ideas and action, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of green politics.

Author: Susan C. Karant-Nunn File Type: pdf In The Reformation of Feeling, Susan Karant-Nunn looks beyond and beneath the formal doctrinal and moral demands of the Reformation in Germany to examine the emotional tenor of the programs that the emerging creeds-revised Catholicism, Lutheranism, and CalvinismReformed theology-developed for their members. As revealed by the surviving sermons from this period, preaching clergy of each faith both explicitly and implicitly provided their listeners with distinct models of a mood to be cultivated. To encourage their parishioners to make an emotional investment in their faith, all three drew upon rhetorical elements that were already present in late medieval Catholicism and elevated them into confessional touchstones. Looking at archival materials containing direct references to feeling, Karant-Nunn focuses on treatments of death and sermons on the Passion. She amplifies these sources with considerations of the decorative, liturgical, musical, and disciplinary changes that ecclesiastical leaders introduced during the period from the late fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Within individual sermons, Karant-Nunn also examines topical elements-including Jews at the crucifixion, the Virgin Marys voluminous weeping below the Cross, and struggles against competing denominations-that were intended to arouse particular kinds of sentiment. Finally, she discusses surviving testimony from the laity in order to assess at least some Christians reception of these lessons on proper devotional feeling. This book is exceptional in its presentation of a cultural rather than theological or behavioral study of the broader movement to remake Christianity. As Karant-Nunn conclusively demonstrates, in the eyes of the Reformations formative personalities strict adherence to doctrine and upright demeanor did not constitute an adequate piety. The truly devout had to engage their hearts in their faith.ReviewKarant-Nunn is one of the first to take up the challenge of the history of emotions and delineate the emotional cultures of Catholicism and Protestantism which have left such deep traces in our cultures right up to the present day. She shows the insidious anti-Semitism that went along with Passion sermons the more preachers stressed Christs suffering, the more they incited hatred of the Jesus killers. By taking the feelings of anger, hatred and envy seriously, she is able to avoid the sentimentality which can come from stressing only the virtues of love and charity, and so provides the most convincing account of emotions in history that I have read. -- Lyndal Roper, Fellow and Tutor in History, Balliol College Oxford Reformation history meets the new history of emotions in this pioneering study. Susan Karant-Nunn not only sheds new light on a host of debates among scholars of the European reformations but she further illuminates a crucial stage in the evolution of emotional regimes in the history of the West. -- Ulrike Strasser, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine After having devoured this engrossing and magisterial study, one truly must wonder why Susan Karant-Nunn is the first to take up the topic of the emotional cultures that emerged from the various Reform movements. Meticulously researched and superbly synthesized, The Reformation of Feeling is a landmark study in Reformation Studies-a stepping stone to a cultural history of the Reformation. -- Helmut Puff, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan A valiant, even daring, expedition into the spiritual world underneath the theological debates, colloquies, political schemes, wars, and treaties that in the past have filled the pages of most histories of the German reformation.--The Catholic Historical ReviewKarant-Nunn offers an immensely valuable model of how to reflect on spectrums of attitude within each faith and change as much as continuities over time.--Ulinka Rublack, St. Johns College, Cambridge UniversityIn this learned study of Passion sermons in Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist communities, Karant-Nunn makes an important contribution to the study of homiletics and spiritual experience in the history of Christianity.--ReligionAbout the AuthorSusan C. Karant-Nunn is Professor of History and Director, Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona

Author: J. D. McClatchy File Type: pdf Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W. H. Auden and Alec Guinness have kept them as well, recording phrases or passages that struck them as wise or witty or quirky. The result is as much the self-portrait of a sensibility as it is a collection of miscellaneous delights. Renowned poet J. D. McClatchy has been keeping such a book for three decades now. This selection from it offers a unique look into what strange facts, what turns of mind or phrase, what glorious feats of language and nature can attract the attention of a poet. The great and the obscure are gathered around the same table, exchanging remarkable opinions. Henry James is speaking of Venice The deposed, the defeated, the disenchanted, the wounded, or even only the bored, have seemed to find there something that no other place could give. At the other end of the table, Groucho Marx is playing drama critic I didnt like the play, but then I saw it under adverse circumstancesthe curtain was up. Nietzsche and Flaubert, Dizzy Gillespie and Marianne Mooredozens of unexpected and timeless aphorisms and anecdotes that pierce and provoke. Many of McClatchys own observations about the art and prowess of writing are included as well. This is a book meant to be sipped, not gulped meant to be read at leisure and pondered on at length. **Review Praise for *Sweet Theft* From his choice discoveries-by-quotation J.D. McClatchy has constructed a worldly, quick, literate amusement park or hall of wonders, enchanted by abrupt visions of reality.Robert Pinsky Reading Sweet Theft is like having the worlds most erudite personal shopper. Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America and Bark Praise for J.D. McClatchy McClatchy continues to explore the connection between the spiritual and the corporeal, seeking a desire as yet half-satisfied. Though he reveres the past and pays tribute to his mentor, James Merrill, the largesse of these poems is the command over craft and language. McClatchy realizes that form and content do matter what is being said is inherent in how it is being saidThroughout, McClatchy demonstrates a fine linguistic controlIn the end, these poems come to represent our own lives, our own longings, our own flag of surrender to the spiritual. A brilliant testament to McClatchys place among American poets. Library Journal Technically and emotionally sophisticated, McClatchys previous three collections (The Rest of the Way, etc.) drew readers in with their conversational brio, and rewarded them with a wisdom that was sad and compromising, sinned against and sinning. The same is true of his brilliant new collectionnot least the sinningThe intimacy of these poems, taken together with their classical control and ironical self-knowledge, confirms McClatchy as one his generations brightest stars. Publishers Weekly Powerful . . . Given McClatchys formal virtuosity, I wouldnt be surprised to learn he jots his grocery lists down in terza rima, too. The New York Times Book Review Although these poems lament the smarts and humiliations attendant on love and loss, they provoke the kind of wonder and joy we experience when the curtain comes down on a dazzling performance. The New Leader About the Author J.D. McClatchy has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Plundered Hearts New and Selected Poems. He is the author of three books of prose, and the editor of dozens of other books, including the influential Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. Called by the New York Times the dean of American opera librettists, his work has been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, the San Francisco Opera and other leading opera houses around the world. He teaches at Yale, where for twenty-five years he has also served as editor of The Yale Review.