IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

Proceedings

The proceedings of the 2005 IASIL conference have now been published, and are available to order online

GLOBAL IRELAND
Irish Literatures in the New Millennium

eds. Clare Wallace & Ondrej Pilný
220pp.

Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)

Global Ireland brings together a selection of critical essays from the Prague 2005 IASIL Conference, by the leading critics of Irish Literature writing today. Contributors include Richard Kearney, Thomas Docherty, Jose Lanters, Jason King, and Rajeev Patke.

Go to http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/global_ireland.html

Table of Contents

I. GLOBALISATION IN THEORY & PRACTICE

Thomas Docherty, The Place’s Fault

José Lanters , “Cobwebs on Your Walls”: The State of the Debate about Globalisation & Irish Drama

Jason King, Black Saint Patrick: Irish Interculturalism in Theoretical Perspective & Theatre Practice

II. POSTMODERNITY, EXILE & HOME

Rajeev S. Patke, Paul Muldoon’s “Incantata”: The “Post-” in “Postmodern”

Gerold Sedlmayr, Between Copacabana & Annaghmakerrig: Paul Durcan’s Global Perspective

Kinga Olszewska, Preliminary Notes on the Issue of Exile: Poland & Ireland

Honor O’Connor, “While Stocks Last”: The Poetry of Dennis O’Driscoll and Contemporary Ireland

III. PLACE, GENDER AND THE BODY

Monica Facchinello , Sceptical Representations of Home: John Banville’s Doctor Copernicus & Kepler

Harvey O’Brien, Local Man, Global Man: Masculinity in Transformation in the Horror/Fantasy of Neil Jordan

Susan Cahill, Doubles & Dislocations: The Body & Place in Anne Enright’s What Are You Like?

IV. CANONICAL WRITERS & INTERCULTURAL LINKS

Richard Kearney, Epiphanies in Joyce

Karl Chircop, Eveline & Mommina by the Window at Twilight: On the Window Motif in James Joyce’s “Eveline” & Luigi Pirandello’s “Leonora Addio!”

Máirín Nic Eoin, “Kafkachas”: Kafka & Irish-language Literature

Jeremy Parrott, From Samsa to Sam: The Metamorphoses of Beckett’s Ms

Emilie Morin, “But to Hell with All This Fucking Scenery”: Ireland in Translation in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy & Malone Meurt/ Malone Dies