"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse"

O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / [electronic resource] : Eugene O'Brien. - Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - viii, 211 p. - Reimagining Ireland, 1 1662-9094 ; . - Reimagining Ireland ; v. 1. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.

Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.


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National characteristics, Irish.
Discourse analysis.


Ireland--Civilization.
Ireland--In literature.
Ireland--In mass media.
Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.
Ireland--Intellectual life--21st century.


Electronic books.

DA925 / .O225 2009eb

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