Projects

Through a study of the short fiction and meta-literary statements published in literary magazine The Bell (1940-1954), this project aims to map the impact of The Bell on the promotion, canon formation and definition of the Irish short story in mid-twentieth-century Ireland so as to assess its role in the short story’s rise to fame as the quintessential national genre in Ireland. Detailed literary analysis, grounded in methodologies of ...

Abstract “Satire provides a valuable means through which citizens can analyze and interrogate power and the realm of politics rather than remain simple subjects of it;” this powerful statement highlights the impacts of well executed political satire (Gray, Jones, & Thompson, 17). Political satire since the early 2000s in the United States has started to receive the recognition it deserves, not just as a trending theme in popular cultural, ...

The Northern regions have been the objects of both physical appropriation through explorations and symbolic appropriation in literary texts which sought to translate the unfamiliar into familiar terms. The impulse to search these regions and mine their resources has been durable and persistent, and the wish to narrate that experience for others has been equally strong. Like the Arctic explorations themselves, Arctic literature is heavily ...

French heavily influenced the English lexicon, mainly during the Middle English period (1100-1500). However, it does not seem to have affected the grammar of English. This is because in Middle English society French functioned as a high-prestige but essentially second language. In such situations, transfer tends to mainly involve lexical borrowing. However, the effects of contact may go beyond direct transfer. Loan words need to be ...

The magazine and the anthology were two important vehicles for the dissemination of poetry

during the early twentieth century. In modernist studies, much focus has been given to the

magazine and its seminal role in the creation of literary modernism. In contrast, much less work

exists on the modernist poetry anthology. This is surprising since many modernist poetry

anthologies and modernist magazines had close ...

This project investigates translation and cultural transfer in the issues of the Scottish periodicals the Edinburgh Review and Blackwood’s Magazine published between April 1817, when Blackwood’s Magazine was launched, and June 1829, when the final issue of the Edinburgh Review under the editorship of Francis Jeffrey appeared.

During the last ten years there has been a surge in scholarship on Scottish ...