Neil Corcoran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Corcoran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Corcoran |
| SIGNATURE | CORCORAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Alfred Professor of English at the University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Companion to Poetic Genre
English Poetry Since 1940
Part 1 Discontinuities and displacements after modenism: Eliot or Auden varieties of parable - Louis MacNeice and Edwin Muir a modernism in place - David Jones and Basil Bunting. Part 2 From the forties: a new romanticism - apocalypse, Dylan Thomas, W.S.Graham, George Barker the poetry of a second war, Keith Douglas, Alum Lewis and others two lonelinesses, Steve Smith and R.S.Thomas. Part 3 From the fifties: introduction a movement pursued, Phili…
Yeats Annual No. 18
pencil.This slip is pasted onto a torn-off printed slip
Sex education targeting African communities in the United Kingdom
This study addresses the issue of the sexual needs of ethnic minority groups in the UK. Using focus group discussions with health service users and third-sector providers, it explores the perception of sex education by Black African communities living in a culturally diverse area in East London, focusing specifically on participants' understanding of safe sex, personal experiences in receiving health information, and the relevance of health-promo…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms i…
Motherless Child
This chapter examines Bowen's novel, The Death of the Heart, proposing that its analysis of class relations in 1930s England has affinities with the work of Waugh, Green, and Lawrence. This analysis is focused on the fate of the orphan and ingénue Portia, and emphasizes her various states of mind partly by concentrated close readings of particular passages. Portia's developing sexuality and her awareness of it impels the plot, and is extensively …
A Ghost of Style
This chapter focuses on Bowen's novel, A World of Love, reading it against The Last September as a work taking up again decades later themes announced there, and bringing to an end Bowen's fictional representations of Ireland and the fate of the Anglo-Irish. It interprets the ambiguous presence of the supernatural in the book which reveals, in part, Bowen's permanent obsession with the First World War. It also suggests that this novel is self-con…
Discovery of a Lack
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The Last September, set during the Troubles in Ireland in the 1920s, taking stock of some historical accounts of the period, notably Peter Hart's. It understands forms of ellipsis and aporia to be characteristic of Bowen's structures and style, and interprets them as, in part, a response to a cataclysmic contemporary history. It interprets Bowen's attitude to the Anglo-Irish, defining her particular…
Mother and Child
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The House in Paris, as her major statement about maternity and orphanhood — subjects that preoccupied her all her life, having strong autobiographical roots. It understands the novel as self-consciously both aligning itself with, and divorcing itself from, the work of Henry James and the 19th-century novel of adultery (Flaubert, Tolstoy), placing unique emphasis on the figure of the child. It interp…
Words in the Dark
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's collection of Second World War short stories, The Demon Lover and Other Stories, proposing it as a book of unhappy returns. Studies of dislocation, the stories have their Anglo-Irish element, even though they are set mainly in the London of the Blitz. The chapter also considers matters of literary allusion and reference, as well as issues of gender together with sexual and social disruption. The chapter co…
Childless Mother
This chapter focuses on Bowen's last, problematical novel, Eva Trout, which has polarized critical opinion. It explains this opinion and reasons for it, then proposes a new reading of it as the climax in an altogether novel structure of Bowen's interest in the figures of mother and child. In the novel's eponymous heroine, Bowen articulates a representation of that impossible figure — the mother who has no child. A radically unsettling experimenta…
War's Stories
This chapter offers a lengthy reading of Bowen's wartime novel, The Heat of the Day, considering it in tandem with various of its contexts, notably Bowen's wartime reports from neutral Ireland to Churchill's government — which some considered a form of espionage — and the diaries of her wartime love, Charles Ritchie, a high-ranking Canadian diplomat. These contexts establish a frame for interpreting the novel's notoriously slippery preoccupations…
The Ghost in the House
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's family history, Bowen's Court, and of a crucial short story, The Back Drawing-Room. It suggests that the various types of ghost encountered in both are crucial to an understanding of Bowen's writing. It traces these back to Bowen's inheritance from forms of Irish 19th-century Protestant Gothic and from her origins as a member of the Ascendancy, in which her view of the ‘big house’ is crucial. It also explo…
Elizabeth Bowen
This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family history, showing how her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions. The book explores Bowen's adaptation of Irish Protestant Gothic in relation to the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, especial…
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an overview of his career…
Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones
For over 30 years, Northern Ireland has witnessed a profound civil conflict, often very violent, known as The Troubles. It is perhaps paradoxical that the province is also the home of some of the finest poets writing in English today. In this study, Jonathan Hufstader examines how a number of Northern Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, have explored fully the resources of language and poetic form in their various responses to …
Poets of Modern Ireland
Neil Corcoran is one of Britain's most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry. In this exciting contribution to the study of both Anglo-Irish literature and modern poetry, Corcoran brings a keen critical intelligence and an informed contextual awareness to the work of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. He puts forward a powerful case for…
After Yeats and Joyce
Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by the Irish? It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articu…
Seamus Heaney and the Art of the Exemplary
In his tender, witty, unillusioned poem 'An Afterwards', in Field Work, Seamus Heaney imagines himself confined after death to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, part of a 'rabid, egotistical daisy-chain' of 'backbiting' poets. When his wife visits him there (accompanied by Virgil's wife) his instinctive, spontaneous question to her is a question about the state of the art: 'My sweet, who wears the bays In our green land above, whose is the lif…
Elizabeth Bowen
This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family history, showing how her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions. The book explores Bowen's adaptation of Irish Protestant Gothic in relation to the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, especial…
Seamus Heaney and the Art of the Exemplary
In his tender, witty, unillusioned poem 'An Afterwards', in Field Work, Seamus Heaney imagines himself confined after death to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, part of a 'rabid, egotistical daisy-chain' of 'backbiting' poets. When his wife visits him there (accompanied by Virgil's wife) his instinctive, spontaneous question to her is a question about the state of the art: 'My sweet, who wears the bays In our green land above, whose is the lif…
After Yeats and Joyce
Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by the Irish? It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articu…
Poets of Modern Ireland
Neil Corcoran is one of Britain's most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry. In this exciting contribution to the study of both Anglo-Irish literature and modern poetry, Corcoran brings a keen critical intelligence and an informed contextual awareness to the work of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. He puts forward a powerful case for…
English Poetry Since 1940
Part 1 Discontinuities and displacements after modenism: Eliot or Auden varieties of parable - Louis MacNeice and Edwin Muir a modernism in place - David Jones and Basil Bunting. Part 2 From the forties: a new romanticism - apocalypse, Dylan Thomas, W.S.Graham, George Barker the poetry of a second war, Keith Douglas, Alum Lewis and others two lonelinesses, Steve Smith and R.S.Thomas. Part 3 From the fifties: introduction a movement pursued, Phili…
Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones
For over 30 years, Northern Ireland has witnessed a profound civil conflict, often very violent, known as The Troubles. It is perhaps paradoxical that the province is also the home of some of the finest poets writing in English today. In this study, Jonathan Hufstader examines how a number of Northern Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, have explored fully the resources of language and poetic form in their various responses to …
Seamus Heaney and the Art of the Exemplary
In his tender, witty, unillusioned poem 'An Afterwards', in Field Work, Seamus Heaney imagines himself confined after death to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, part of a 'rabid, egotistical daisy-chain' of 'backbiting' poets. When his wife visits him there (accompanied by Virgil's wife) his instinctive, spontaneous question to her is a question about the state of the art: 'My sweet, who wears the bays In our green land above, whose is the lif…
After Yeats and Joyce
Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by the Irish? It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articu…
Poets of Modern Ireland
Neil Corcoran is one of Britain's most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry. In this exciting contribution to the study of both Anglo-Irish literature and modern poetry, Corcoran brings a keen critical intelligence and an informed contextual awareness to the work of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. He puts forward a powerful case for…
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an overview of his career…
Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones
For over 30 years, Northern Ireland has witnessed a profound civil conflict, often very violent, known as The Troubles. It is perhaps paradoxical that the province is also the home of some of the finest poets writing in English today. In this study, Jonathan Hufstader examines how a number of Northern Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, have explored fully the resources of language and poetic form in their various responses to …
Motherless Child
This chapter examines Bowen's novel, The Death of the Heart, proposing that its analysis of class relations in 1930s England has affinities with the work of Waugh, Green, and Lawrence. This analysis is focused on the fate of the orphan and ingénue Portia, and emphasizes her various states of mind partly by concentrated close readings of particular passages. Portia's developing sexuality and her awareness of it impels the plot, and is extensively …
A Ghost of Style
This chapter focuses on Bowen's novel, A World of Love, reading it against The Last September as a work taking up again decades later themes announced there, and bringing to an end Bowen's fictional representations of Ireland and the fate of the Anglo-Irish. It interprets the ambiguous presence of the supernatural in the book which reveals, in part, Bowen's permanent obsession with the First World War. It also suggests that this novel is self-con…
Discovery of a Lack
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The Last September, set during the Troubles in Ireland in the 1920s, taking stock of some historical accounts of the period, notably Peter Hart's. It understands forms of ellipsis and aporia to be characteristic of Bowen's structures and style, and interprets them as, in part, a response to a cataclysmic contemporary history. It interprets Bowen's attitude to the Anglo-Irish, defining her particular…
Mother and Child
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The House in Paris, as her major statement about maternity and orphanhood — subjects that preoccupied her all her life, having strong autobiographical roots. It understands the novel as self-consciously both aligning itself with, and divorcing itself from, the work of Henry James and the 19th-century novel of adultery (Flaubert, Tolstoy), placing unique emphasis on the figure of the child. It interp…
Words in the Dark
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's collection of Second World War short stories, The Demon Lover and Other Stories, proposing it as a book of unhappy returns. Studies of dislocation, the stories have their Anglo-Irish element, even though they are set mainly in the London of the Blitz. The chapter also considers matters of literary allusion and reference, as well as issues of gender together with sexual and social disruption. The chapter co…
Childless Mother
This chapter focuses on Bowen's last, problematical novel, Eva Trout, which has polarized critical opinion. It explains this opinion and reasons for it, then proposes a new reading of it as the climax in an altogether novel structure of Bowen's interest in the figures of mother and child. In the novel's eponymous heroine, Bowen articulates a representation of that impossible figure — the mother who has no child. A radically unsettling experimenta…
War's Stories
This chapter offers a lengthy reading of Bowen's wartime novel, The Heat of the Day, considering it in tandem with various of its contexts, notably Bowen's wartime reports from neutral Ireland to Churchill's government — which some considered a form of espionage — and the diaries of her wartime love, Charles Ritchie, a high-ranking Canadian diplomat. These contexts establish a frame for interpreting the novel's notoriously slippery preoccupations…
The Ghost in the House
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's family history, Bowen's Court, and of a crucial short story, The Back Drawing-Room. It suggests that the various types of ghost encountered in both are crucial to an understanding of Bowen's writing. It traces these back to Bowen's inheritance from forms of Irish 19th-century Protestant Gothic and from her origins as a member of the Ascendancy, in which her view of the ‘big house’ is crucial. It also explo…
Elizabeth Bowen
This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family history, showing how her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions. The book explores Bowen's adaptation of Irish Protestant Gothic in relation to the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, especial…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms i…
Sex education targeting African communities in the United Kingdom
This study addresses the issue of the sexual needs of ethnic minority groups in the UK. Using focus group discussions with health service users and third-sector providers, it explores the perception of sex education by Black African communities living in a culturally diverse area in East London, focusing specifically on participants' understanding of safe sex, personal experiences in receiving health information, and the relevance of health-promo…
Yeats Annual No. 18
pencil.This slip is pasted onto a torn-off printed slip
A Companion to Poetic Genre
English Poetry Since 1940
Part 1 Discontinuities and displacements after modenism: Eliot or Auden varieties of parable - Louis MacNeice and Edwin Muir a modernism in place - David Jones and Basil Bunting. Part 2 From the forties: a new romanticism - apocalypse, Dylan Thomas, W.S.Graham, George Barker the poetry of a second war, Keith Douglas, Alum Lewis and others two lonelinesses, Steve Smith and R.S.Thomas. Part 3 From the fifties: introduction a movement pursued, Phili…
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