Bowie, Beckett, and Being: The Art of AlienationRodney Sharkey | Bloomsbury Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms
» Read moreSubjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations By Matthew Fogarty Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature This new publication reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist
» Read moreSamuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Accra, Ghana, 24th-28th July 2023 Samuel Beckett’s Drama and the Undoing of Myths of Empire and Imperialism Beckett’s life is a dance between imperialisms, colonialisms and independence struggles. He has been portrayed, if not as a border thinker, at least as an artist for whom borders shaped his life, political thinking and artistic
» Read moreGeographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa (ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017)) Deadline for submissions: September 23, 2016 Full name / name of organization: Cóilín Parsons Contact email: coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu Ireland was, as Robert Young writes, England’s first and always exceptional colony. But it was far from the only one. Its unique colonial status has yielded productive scholarship addressing its anomalous
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