[Abstract] The relationship between Ireland and the Gothic goes back to the early days of the genre, when the Sublime, as identified by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, became central to the aesthetic concepts which ...

[Abstract] This chapter examines the performative power of La Pocha Nostra to build a transnational alternative space for neglected communities. Such space represents, through radical politics, a form of futurism in which ...

[Abstract] Red Chairs has been acclaimed as her masterpiece by Philip Roth in the book jacket cover, and as her most ambitious novel by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne at the moment of its publication (2015), which is a lot to say about ...

[Abstract] This volume brings together diverse appreciations on how Irish literature and culture is connected to different discourses and narratives as a means of constructing new semantics in the definition of Irish ...

[Abstract] The emergence of spatial experience has sparked a notable interest within the realm of critical theory, leading to a comprehensive exploration and conceptualization of various cultural, ideological, and aesthetic ...

[Abstract] The essays included in this collection focus on the particularities of “absences,” an equivocal concept whose legitimacy has been epistemologically interrogated after Heidegger’s and Derrida’s use of the term, ...

[Abstract] The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and ...

[Abstract]The work of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison has gone relatively unnoticed by critics despite the numerous social, literary and artistic elements included in his songs. Among them is the representation ...