Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443888877 ISBN 13: 9781443888875

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

This volume offers a collection of papers dealing with how adversities have been tackled and expressed artistically from various perspectives in Ireland. Taken together, the many approaches to critical times provided here prove how, surrounded by outbursts of pessimism, financial hecatombs, and individual and collective discouragement, the academic community can find meaning in hard, intellectual work, and in serious updated research. The chapters here are authored by scholars specialised in Irish Studies, and provide reflections and discussions on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved.

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About the Author

María Losada-Friend received a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and a PhD in English Philology from the University of Sevilla, Spain. She is Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Huelva, Spain, and a member of the Research Group Antonio Jacobo del Barco on Comparative Literature issues and the Spanish Association of Irish Studies. Her contributions to various projects funded by the Spanish Ministry are related to the analysis of literary and artistic perspectives in eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century narratives. She edited Teaching Ireland: New Didactic Approaches to Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Issues (2010) and co-edited Dreaming the Future: New Horizons/Old Barriers in 21st-Century Ireland (2011). Dr Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides is a full-time Lecturer in English at the University of Huelva (Spain) and the current Treasurer of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI). She has conducted extensive research on the intersection of gender, nation, family and social history in contemporary Ireland as well as on single maternity in Irish fiction and cinema. She is the author of Sólo ellas: familia y feminismo en la novela irlandesa contemporánea (2003) and the co-editor of Espacios de Género (2005), Single Motherhood in Twentieth Century Ireland: Cultural, Historical and Social Essays (2006), Gendering Citizenship and Globalization (2011) and Experiencing Gender: International Approaches (2015). She has published book chapters and articles on a variety of Irish authors such as Catherine Dunne, Mary Rose Callaghan, Edna OBrien and Mary Leland, among others. Her current research interests focus on Irelands Magdalene Laundries and the social dimension of John Banvilles crime fiction. Pilar Ron-Vaz received a PhD in Linguistics from Northwestern University. She is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Huelva, Spain, and her research focuses on contrastive pragmatics and discourse analysis. She is co-editor of The Historical Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics Interface (2006) and A Real Civilization: El legado británico en la provincia de Huelva (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1443888877
• ISBN 13: 9781443888875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275
• Editor: María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Auxiliadora Pérez Vides