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  Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya

IASIL '99



IASIL 1999

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

The conference was held at the University of Barcelona building in Plaça Universitat, the address of which is:

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585



Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya,

Universitat de Barcelona,

Corts Catalanes, 585

08007 Barcelona

Spain

July 1999





IASIL '99 - Programme

Publication of papers




Monday 26th July

08.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.00 Opening Ceremony
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.45 - 13.00 Plenary lecture. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Title to be announced)
13.00 - 14.00 Cava in the garden
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.30 - 17.30 Panels
18.00 Visit to the Palau de la Generalitat (Seat of the Catalan Government)
21.00 Reception at "The Quiet Man"



Panels: 15.30-17.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing

Room B: Postcolonial Ireland

Room C: Gender in Irish Literatures

Room D: Representing Ireland

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and the Fin-de-Siècle

Room G: Irish Drama and Theatre: Past, Present, Future



Monday, 26th July 15.30-17.30
Room A B C D E F G
Chair P. Zozaya B. Stewart E. Monforte I. Boada R. Welch B. Phillips N. Grene
Delegate

B. Schrank (Canada) "Performing Political Opposition: Sean O'Casey's Last Plays and the Demise of De Valera"

M. Estévez (Spain) "James Joyce's Postcolonial and Nationalist Valences" F. Sewell (Northern Ireland) "Cathal Ó Searcaigh: Loosening the Tongue" E. Aliaga (Spain) "A Vision of the Northern Irish Conflict: The Popular Perception in Spain" I. Gilsenan-Nordin (Sweden) "Seamus Heaney' Opening of Vision: Nihilism and Post- modernism" T. Akai (Japan) "'The Shadow of the Gods': The Modern Fairy-Faith of the Irish Writers at the Fin-de- Siècle" G. Tallone (Italy) "Darkness Visible: Brian Friel's The Enemy Within"
Delegate R.R. Haddad (Brazil) "George Bernard Shaw and Censorship:' The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet'" M. Brian (Canada) "James Joyce Outwitting the Evil Empires: Writing English in Sanskrit, Celebrating the Catholic Church of Zoroaster, and Receiving the Wor(l)d of the Female Holy Ghost" J.E. Doan (United States) "Cathal Ó Searcaigh: Gay, Gaelach agus Galánta (Irish Speaking and Handsome)" E. Carrillo (Spain) "Literary Representa- tions of Cities in Conflict: Belfast and Barcelona" E. Guy (Australia) "Fasting, a Nation in Abstinence and Seamus Heaney" M. Campbell (United Kingdom) "Yeats 'At the End of Time': Symbol, Stasis, Rhyme in The Wind among the Reeds (1899)" M. Richtarik (United States) "Stewart Parker, Belfast Playwright"
Delegate K. Wallace (United Kingdom) "Dissent and Dislocation in Cohn Toibin's The Story of the Night" J. Hildebidle (United States) "boy oh boy have you had it" H. Tange (United Kingdom) "The Twa-heided Snake: Images of Ireland in Scottish Inter-War Literature" C.A. Malcolm (Poland) "Eroticism in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney" D. Fleming (United States) "'The Second Coming': Prophecy and Eternal Recurrence in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers" M. Pelletier (France) "Some Recent Theatrical Approaches to the 'Troubles' "
Delegate L. James (Czech Republic) "Joycean Technolo- gies: Finnegans Wake, Hypertext and the Millennium Bug" P.R. Pratt (Morocco) "The Noise as Norm: Exploring the Lesbian Paradigm in Mary Dorcey's A Noise from the Woodshed" K. Stirling (Switzerland) "A Vision of Scotland: Hugh MacDiar- mid's Appropria- tion of the Aisling" H. Sungsook (South Korea) "The Aesthetics of Heaney's Poetry: The Combination of Lyricism and Violence" A. Ciancio (Italy) "Irish Chilhood at the Fin-de- Siècle: A Portrait of a Country as a Young Man"




Tuesday 27 July, Morning
09.00 - 10.30 Panels
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Panels
12.45 - 14.00 Plenary Lecture. Bernard O'Donoghue 'Dispassionate Syntax: the End of Yeats's Century'
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch

Panels: 09.00 - 10.30

Room A: Irish Fictions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Room B: Postmodernism in Irish Literatures

Room C: Gender in Irish Literatures (08.30)

Room D: Representing Ireland

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and Translation



Tuesday, 27 July 09.00 to 10.30

A B C D E F
Chair A.R. De Toro C. Holm C. Connolly W. Huber S. Ballyn K. Firth
Delegate C. Mazzullo (Italy) "An Encounter between At Swim-Two-Birds and Cruiskeen Lawn" P. Lynch (Ireland) "Gender Roles in Education and Writing: Maria Edgeworth's Letters for Literary Ladies" N. Miyake (Japan) "Elements, Human Feelings, and Life: The Wind Among the Reeds as the New Poetic Field for the Drama"
Delegate L. Lojo (Spain) "The Irish Short Story after Joyce: An Awareness of the Genre" S. Dilks (United States) "Beckett Imagining the Dead Imagination in 'The Lost Ones' and 'Closed Place' " E. Cargan (Northern Ireland) "Coded Language and its Significance in the Work of the War Poet Medbh McGuckian" G. Bendelli (Italy) "Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy: from novel to film" B. Brown (United States) "Dennis O'Driscoll's The Bottom Line: Elegy to a Civil Servant" M. Gatto (Italy) " 'Through the Wall': Translation in the Work of Seamus Heaney"
Delegate J. Sacido (Spain) "Voices from the Periphery: Ireland and the Short Story" L. Visconti (Italy) "Samuel Beckett, or the Postmodern Use of Rhetoric" C. Connolly (United Kingdom) "Divorcing Fiction: The Meanings of Marriage in the Novels of Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan" Nicholas Grene (Ireland) "Black Pastoral: Images of Ireland in the 19990s" E. Klopper (South Africa) "Reconstruct-ing a Life: Richard Murphy's The Price of Stone" A. MacCarthy (Spain) " 'Translations from Irish Poetry in the Nineteenth Century"
Delegate C. Uhrman (Sweden) "Suffering and Sin, Sacrifice and Death in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal and Lamb" A. Serra (Italy) "De-centring Myths: Postmodernism Echoes in Oscar Wilde's Poems in Prose" C. Jordan (United States) "Priestesses of the Feast: Gender, Fantasy and Food in Joyce's 'The Dead' " T. Mahony (United States) "Radio in Post-Treaty Ireland: The Voice of the Nation in its Literature" A. Persson (Sweden) "Reaching out to the Audience: Brendan Kennelly's Public Poetry Readings" T. Kabdebo (Ireland) "Six Irish Poets Translating Attila Jozsef"



Panels: 11.30-12.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing

Room B: Postmodernism in Irish Literatures

Room C: Gender in Irish Literatures

Room D: Representing Ireland

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room G: Irish Drama and Theatre: Past, Present, Future

Tuesday, 27 July 11.00 to 12.30

A B C D E F G
Chair A. Persson W. Zach M. Nash K. Firth M. Ohno T. Mahony
Delegate H. Friberg (Sweden) " '... Tired of the Anglo- Saxon World': Liam O'Flaherty and World War II Isolation" M. Kenneally (Canada) "The Iconography of Landscape in Selected Irish Short Stories " M. Kelleher (Ireland) "Writing Irish Women's Literary History: A Tradition of Their Own" A.M. Hendriok (United Kingdom) "Irish Myths and the Cinema: 'The Secret of Roan Inish' (1992) and 'Into the West' (1995) " Y. Midzunoe (Japan) "Seamus Heaney's New Movement to Transmodernism relating to his Translation of Beowulf " A. McMullan (Ireland) "Staging the Unhomely Female Body: Frank Mc-Guinness's Mary and Lizzie and Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan"
Delegate I. Midzunoe (Japan) "Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell and Milton's Idea of Ireland" P. Proietti (Italy) "Motifs, Types and Places of Today's Ireland in the Postmodern- ist Irish Short Story " E. O'Halloran (United States) "Woman-as-Nation: Two Centuries of Irish Women Writers Reclaim Nationalist Iconography" R. González (Spain) "Irish History on the Screen: Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996)" C. Johnston (United States) "Desmond Egan's Poetry: An Overview"
Delegate B. Tysdahl (Norway) "Colonial Questions in a Gigantic Style: The 'Cyclops' Episode in James Joyce's Ulysses" M.L. Storey (United States) "The Irish Short Story at Century's End - and Beyond?" M. Ryan (Australia) "Ourselves Alone: Solipsism in Neil Jordan's Film and Writing" H. Ikeda (Ireland) "Metamorphosis of the Other in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Poetry" C. Wallace (Czech Republic) "Desire, Destiny and Dystopia in Marina Carr's Drama (The Mai, Portia Coughlan, The Bog of Cats)"



Tuesday 27 July Afternoon

15.30 - 17.30 Panels
17.30 - 18.00 Break
18.00 - 19.15 Plenary Lecture. Joaquim Mallafré: 'Beckett on Stage: Catalan Translations'
20.00 Concert in Sta. Maria del Mar



Panels: 15.30-17.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing

Room B: Postcolonial Ireland

Room C: Gender in Irish Literatures

Room D: Irish Literatures and Europe

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and the Fin-de-Siècle

Room H: Teaching Irish Literatures



Tuesday 27th July 15.30-17.30
Room A B C D E F G H
Chair M. Elliott J. Lanters I. Praga J. Wilson Foster S. Golden N. Sammells B. Stewart
Delegate A. McCart- ney (Northern Ireland) "Writing the Land War: The Political Romance" B. Csilla (Hungary) " 'When shall we three meet again?': Spenser, Shake- speare and McGuin- ness in the Post- colonial Discourse of Mutabilitie T.D. Chesney (United States) "Joyce and O'Faolain's Women: Kindred Spirits Across Time" D.A. Badin (Italy) "Poets of the Great Famine: Egan, Kavanagh, Kinsella" M.H. Mutran (Brazil) "Wilde's Salomé on the Stage and on the Screen: Two Ends of the Century" J.M. Estévez (Spain) "How to Teach Irish Literatures in Spain at the Turn of the Century"
Delegate S. Mashaal (Egypt) "The 'Image of a Star Laid Down'" D. Duncan (United States) "Poetic Evolution: Barry Rows forward with Prayers of Sherkin" K. Weiss (United States) "Edna O'Brien's A Pagan Place: Maintain -ing a Fictional Other" L. D'Agostino (Northern Ireland) "Some European Images and Influences in the Poetry of Derek Mahon" R. Moi (Norway) " Cats, Bangles and Throw- backs: What is the Point of Paul Muldoon's Postmoder- nist Play in Hay?" C. Pascual (Spain) "A Precursor of Modernism: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest" D. Uí Bhraonáin (Ireland) "Electronic Resources for the Study of Literature in Irish"
Delegate R. Tracy (United States) " 'Ireland, through us, Summons her Children': Pearse, Kathleen Ni Houlihan, and the Hidden Republic"" M.A. Barros (Spain) "The New Irish Country Girls: A Chrono- logical Comparison of the Femenine Sexual Experience I. Boada (Northern Ireland) "Nationalism and Language in Catalan and Irish Contemporary Short Stories: Feminist and Post-colonial Perspec-tives" J. Holdridge (Ireland) "'Night- Rule': Decadence and Sublimity in Derek Mahon's The Yellow Book" M. Murphy (United States) "Teaching the Famine"
Delegate M. Böss (Denmark) "Country of Light: The Private Nation of Patrick Pearse" B. Stewart (Northern Ireland) "The Old Bog Road: Expressions of Atavism in Irish Culture" S. Díez (Spain) "Women's Homoerotic Voice in the Works of Emma Donoghue: Discovery and Assertion" B. Olinder (Sweden) "The Irish Contribu- tion to European Culture: John Hewitt's View" D. Tubridy (United Kingdom) "Identities of Ireland in Kinsella's Pepper- canister Poetry" N. Doody (Ireland) "Precursor and Ephebe: Oscar Wilde, Harold Bloom and the Theory of Poetry as Influence" D. Pierce (United Kingdom) "Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: Construc-ting a Reader"




Wednesday 28 July: Morning
09.00 - 10.30 Panels
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Panels
12.45 - 14.00 Plenary Lecture. Angela Bourke 'Cultural Collisions in 1890s Ireland'
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.30 - 18.30 AGM: Aula Magna
19.00 Visit to the Town/City Hall



Panels: 09.00-10.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing (08.30)

Room B: Postmodernism in Irish Literatures

Room D: Irish Literatures and Europe

Room F: Irish Literatures and translation

Room G: Irish Drama and Theatre: Past, Present, Future



Wednesday, 28 July: Panels from 09.00 to 10.30
Room A B C D E F G
Chair J. Hurtley S. Carroll Y. González I. MacCandless D.E. Morse
Delegate N. Allen (Ireland) "The Politics of a Cultural Journal: George Russell ('AE') and The Irish Statesman" Y. Kim (Korea) "Tracing Postmodern Discourses in Yeats"
Delegate M. Ballin United Kingdom) "Audiences for Periodicals in Post-colonial Ireland" R. Gefter (Italy) "Postmodern Love, Postmodern Death: God-like Authors and Love-like Narratives in John Banville's and Desmond Hogan's Novels " J. Country- man (United States) "Mapping the Intersections of Island Lore from Ireland and Spain: Parallels and Meridians" M.I. Butler de Foley (Ireland) "Translating: A Creative Experiment" E. Hidalgo (Spain) "Discourse Analysis, Irish Theatre and Disrupted Communi- cation"
Delegate J. Heaney (Ireland) "'A Madness from Within': Defending the Nation in Time of Civil War" J. McMinn (Northern Ireland) "The Presence of Paintings in John Banville's Fiction" M.F. Louro (Portugal) "Synge and Saramago- Blindness as Metaphor" R. Wall (Canada) "Intra-lingual Translation: Irish English - - Standard English" O. Pilný (Czech Republic) "The Insight of Blindness: The Ironies of The Well of The Saints"
Delegate J. Scaggs (Ireland) "Making Sense of Time: Sex, Death, and Narrative in Mike McCor mack's Crowe's Requiem" A.R. de Toro Santos (Spain) "Ireland and Spain: Galicia, the Faithful Sister" R. Welch (Northern Ireland) "'A Ghostly Paradigm': Translation and the Source" B. Levitas (Northern Ireland) "The Quint-essence of Parnellism: Irish Theatre in the 1890s"

Panels: 11.00-12.30

Room A: Irish Fictions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Room B: Postmodernism in Irish Literatures

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and the Fin-de-Siècle

Room G: Irish Drama and Theatre: Past, Present, Future

Wednesday, 28 July 11.00 to 12.30

A B C D E F G
Chair C. Andreu R. O'Dwyer A. Moya P. Lynch M. Arndt
Delegate J. Brihault (France) "English Words for Irish Thoughts" W. Huber (Germany) "Oscar Wilde and the Postmodern Bio-Play" H. Schwall (Belgium) "Utopia and Dystopia in Irish Literature"
Delegate D. MacKenna (Ireland) [Title pending] A. Moya (Spain) "Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar (1989): Reading Wilde at the End of the 20th Century S. Murphy (United Kingdom) "'A Code of Images': Northern Irish Centos" R. Weintraub (United States) "Doyle's Dream: John Bull's Other Island" J.F. Dean (United States) "Irish Stage Censorship in the 1950s"
Delegate T. Casal (Ireland) "'My Probably Pointless Effort to Create': The Struggle for Creativity on Jennifer Johnston's The Christmas Tree" N. Sammells (United Kingdom) "Pulp Fictions: Oscar Wilde and Quentin Tarantino" R. Carvalho- Homem (Portugal) "The Word (Mis)trusted: Rhetoric and Self-Irony in some Modern Irish Poets" S. Weintraub (United States) "Bernard Shaw and Edward Elgar" D. Cottreau (Canada) "New Directions: Maelossa Stafford at the Druid Theatre"




Thursday 29 July Morning
09.00 - 10.30 Panels
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Panels
12.45 - 14.00 Plenary Lecture. Colm Toibin (Catalonia and Ireland: Fearful Symmetries'
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch



Panels: 09.00-10.30

Room B: Postcolonial Ireland (08.30)

Room C: Gender in Irish Literatures (08.30)

Room D: Representing Ireland

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and the Fin-de-Siècle

Room G: Irish Drama and Theatre: Past, Present, Future

Thursday, 29 July 09.00 to 10.30
A B C D E F G
Chair J. Wilson Foster J. McMinn S. Ballyn Y. Kim E. Fauset L. Russell
Delegate I. Harte (United Kingdom) "History Lessons: Postcolonialism and Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark" G. Schneider (Germany) "Masculinity and Sexual Identity in Forrest Reid's Uncle Stephen"
Delegate R.S. Patke (India) "Post- colonial Yeats" W. Balzano (Ireland) "Irish Veilscapes " P. Bohan (Spain) "Anthony Burgess's England is somewhere between Ireland and Europe" S. Grgas (Croatia) "The Postmodern Context of Paul Muldoon's Poetry" B. Fleming (United Kingdom) "Represent- ations of Ireland and the Figure of the New Woman in George Moore's A Drama in Muslin and George Meredith's Diana of the Crossways" D.E. Morse (Hungary) "The End of the World at the End of the Century: Chris Lee's The Electro- cution of Children"
Delegate M. Gibson (Bulgaria) "Yeats and Imperialist Discourses" R. Frehner (Switzer- land) "The Dark one and The Fair: John Banville's Historians of the Imagination and their Gender Stereotypes" P. Bull (Australia) "Irish Literatures, Histories and Cultural Perspectives in Australia" J. Swann (Germany) "Postmodern-ism and Irish Poetry" C. Hughes (Japan) "The Real Charlotte: Somerville and Ross's Fatal Woman" F.A.M. Darrag (Egypt) "Contempor-ary Irish Drama and Post modernist Ireland..."
Delegate N. Meihuizen (South Africa) "Leo Africanus and the Evocation of the Other: Existential Definition in Yeatsian Orientalism" Y. González (Spain) "Negotiating Masculinity and Femininity: True Believers by Joseph O'Connor and That Bad Woman by Claire Boylan" E. Sullivan (United States) "Irish Military Men Serving Spain in 18th and 19th Century North America" N. Toraiwa (Japan) " 'Most Foreign and Cherished Reader': On Medbh McGuckian's Ideas of Language" G. Hughes (Japan) "Writer and Artist in George Moore's A Drama in Muslin" E. Fitzpatrick (Canada) "Female Subjectivity in the Works of Marina Carr and Teresa Deevy"



Panels: 15.30-17.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing

Room B: Postcolonial Ireland

Room C: The Language of Contemporary Irish Art

Room D: Irish Literatures and Europe

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and Translation



Thursday, 29 July: Panels from 11.00 to 12.30
A B C D E F G
Chair B. Phillips L. Russell J. Wilson Foster S. Ballyn M. Murphy
Delegate K. Hopper (United Kingdom) "The Dismember-ment of Orpheus: Flann O'Brien and the Censorship Code" T. O'Brien-Johnson (Switzerland) "Gendering Family Love in Some Contem-porary Irish Poetry" Forum: "Scotland and Ireland in the 21st Century" B. Cliff (Ireland) "Poetry 'On the Cusp': The Manuscripts for Paul Muldoon's '7, Middagh Street " Forum: "Teaching an Irish text"
Delegate J. Lanters (United States) "The Unthinkable Universe of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman" S. Hagemann (Germany) "Emancipat- ing Glorvina?" I. Praga (Spain) "Religion at the End of the Century: An Approach to J.F. Deane's Poetry"
Delegate C.M. Kaplan (United States) "Edna O'Brien's ReJoycing: Portraits of the Artist (and Non-Artist) as a Young Man" C. Schattmann (United States) "'But in What Country Have we Been?': John Montague's Border Sick Call"



15.30 - 17.30 Panels
17.30 - 18.00 Break
20.00 Dinner at Paradís Ca n'Amat



Panels: 15.30-17.30

Room A: History and Politics in Irish Writing

Room B: Postcolonial Ireland

Room C: The Language of Contemporary Irish Art

Room D: Irish Literatures and Europe

Room E: Irish Poetries Now

Room F: Irish Literatures and Translation



Thursday 29th 15.30 to 17.30

A B C D E F G
Chair D. Mackenna M. Murphy A. Dalsimer J. Hurtley M. Ohno D. MacDermott
Delegate A. Wessels (South Africa) " 'Head or Harp'?: The Crisis of Irish National Identity and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy as Portrayed in Selected Modern and Contempo- rary Novels" G. Giambona Gailor (Italy) "Postcolon- iality, Resistance, and Identity in Recent Irish Fiction" V. Kreilkamp and A.M. Dalsimer (United States) "The Intertextuality of Alice Maher's Recent Art" J.A. Stevens (Ireland) "Harlequin in Ireland: The Use of Pantomime in Somerville and Ross's Irish R.M. Stories" L. Collins (Ireland) "The Sacred Body in the Poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanain"
Delegate A. Kelly (Northern Ireland) "'Ordered Dreams': Ideology and Utopia in the 'Troubles' Thriller" J. McDonagh (Ireland) "The Ireland that we Dreamed of - An Imagined Community" R. Lydenberg (United States) "The Fertile Void: History and Language in the Art of Dorothy Cross" L. Izarra (Brazil) "The Picaresque as a Decolon- izing Discourse in James Stephen's The Demi-Gods" A.R. García (Spain) "An Analysis of the Female Icons in Paula Meehan's The Man who was Marked by Winter" W. Zach (Germany) "Translating Brian Friel into German: Problems and Solutions"
Delegate P. Craig (United Kingdom) [Title pending] N. Ito (Japan) "Infringe- ment of or Trespassing the Border" K. Nahum (United States) "Hidden Scripts: The Art of Ciarán Lennon" M. Randaccio (Italy) "Pirandello's and Friel's Denied Tragedies: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Living Quartets" F. Tanigawa (Japan) "Paula Meehan's Ars Poetica: Its Significance and Background" A.A. Mazhar (Egypt) "The Arabic Translation of The Playboy: A Subversion of the Egyptian Peasant Stereotype"
Delegate M. Fitzgerald- Hoyt (United States) "A Parable for the Peace Agreement: William Trevor's 'Against the Odds' " A. Thacker (Northern Ireland) "Spatial Politics in Ulysses" C. MacGiolla Leith (Ireland) "New Territories: The Landscape in Contempo- rary Irish Art" L. Wong (Hong Kong) "The Global and the Local in the Cross- Cultural Adaptation of Pygmalion"




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