Scott Brewster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Brewster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewster |
| SIGNATURE | BREWSTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7948-0462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mercian Charms
This essay traces the unlikely affinities between Bram Stoker’s novel The Lair of the White Worm (1911) and David Rudkin’s television play Penda’s Fen (1974), showing how both involve the mythopoeic reinvention of Anglo-Saxon Mercia as a heartland of visionary change. These texts resist alien beliefs and defend territorial integrity, but also extend a welcome to outsiders or incomers. Stoker and Rudkin turn the storied landscape of ancient Mercia…
Irish literature since 1990
He has written two monographs on Northern Irish culture: Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland at best a partial success; they did secure 418,230 votes for their anti-Agreement stance, but lost a seat to their main nationalist opponents. 7 In the wake of what was supposed to be a peaceful 'day of action' in March 1986, there were major clashes between protestors and the RUC, which resulted in forty-seven policemen requiring medical treatment a…
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story
The nineteenth-century ghost story is, among other things, a sensitive index of the estrangements and preoccupations of colonial and settler cultures. These are stories where the spectre can be heard to speak—sometimes obliquely, sometimes directly—to the traumas of colonial dispossession suffered by the indigenous peoples of Australia. 1 They also register modernity’s insecure footing in Australian soil, and in a landscape that is not yet, and m…
A few words for Axel Vander
The revelations about Paul de Man’s activities in Belgium during the Second World War placed him, and by extension deconstruction, on public trial. The affair gave rise to a series of novels, such as Gilbert Adair’s The Death of the Author (1992) or Bernhard Schlink’s Homecoming (2008), that dismiss critical theory as ethically bankrupt charlatanism. John Banville’s Shroud (2002) and Ancient Light (2012) place the enigmatic theorist Axel Vander, …
Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities
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To relive the past: that insistent impossibility of psychoanalysis and film. These forms of retelling invite, even demand, a distracted vision that flickers back and forth, scene by scene, repeating a past that is a present out of time. This essay examines the meditation on loss, frozen time and uncanny aftermaths in the contemporary ghost films What Lies Beneath (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 2000) and The Others (dir. Alejandro Amenâbar, 2001) in the l…
Psychoanalysis
This chapter covers work published in the field of psychoanalytic studies in the year 2003.
Ireland in Proximity
Ireland in Proximity surveys and develops the expanding field of Irish Studies, reviewing existing debates within the discipline and providing new avenues for exploration. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to three areas of current, and often contentious, debate within Irish Studies. This accessible volume illustrates the diversity of thinking on …
Death and the dinner party
This article deploys Freud's work on totemic practice, mourning and the uncanny to analyse complex fictions of remembering and forgetting, invitation and exclusion played out around dinner tables in Joyce's Dead, and Bowen's The Last September and A World of Love. As Freud hypothesizes, and these literary texts appear to confirm, acts of communal eating, devoted directly or indirectly to commemorating absent figures, uncannily bring up history. N…
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Death and the dinner party
This article deploys Freud's work on totemic practice, mourning and the uncanny to analyse complex fictions of remembering and forgetting, invitation and exclusion played out around dinner tables in Joyce's Dead, and Bowen's The Last September and A World of Love. As Freud hypothesizes, and these literary texts appear to confirm, acts of communal eating, devoted directly or indirectly to commemorating absent figures, uncannily bring up history. N…
Ireland in Proximity
Ireland in Proximity surveys and develops the expanding field of Irish Studies, reviewing existing debates within the discipline and providing new avenues for exploration. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to three areas of current, and often contentious, debate within Irish Studies. This accessible volume illustrates the diversity of thinking on …
Psychoanalysis
This chapter covers work published in the field of psychoanalytic studies in the year 2003.
Access Denied
To relive the past: that insistent impossibility of psychoanalysis and film. These forms of retelling invite, even demand, a distracted vision that flickers back and forth, scene by scene, repeating a past that is a present out of time. This essay examines the meditation on loss, frozen time and uncanny aftermaths in the contemporary ghost films What Lies Beneath (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 2000) and The Others (dir. Alejandro Amenâbar, 2001) in the l…
Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities
A few words for Axel Vander
The revelations about Paul de Man’s activities in Belgium during the Second World War placed him, and by extension deconstruction, on public trial. The affair gave rise to a series of novels, such as Gilbert Adair’s The Death of the Author (1992) or Bernhard Schlink’s Homecoming (2008), that dismiss critical theory as ethically bankrupt charlatanism. John Banville’s Shroud (2002) and Ancient Light (2012) place the enigmatic theorist Axel Vander, …
Irish literature since 1990
He has written two monographs on Northern Irish culture: Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland at best a partial success; they did secure 418,230 votes for their anti-Agreement stance, but lost a seat to their main nationalist opponents. 7 In the wake of what was supposed to be a peaceful 'day of action' in March 1986, there were major clashes between protestors and the RUC, which resulted in forty-seven policemen requiring medical treatment a…
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story
The nineteenth-century ghost story is, among other things, a sensitive index of the estrangements and preoccupations of colonial and settler cultures. These are stories where the spectre can be heard to speak—sometimes obliquely, sometimes directly—to the traumas of colonial dispossession suffered by the indigenous peoples of Australia. 1 They also register modernity’s insecure footing in Australian soil, and in a landscape that is not yet, and m…
Mercian Charms
This essay traces the unlikely affinities between Bram Stoker’s novel The Lair of the White Worm (1911) and David Rudkin’s television play Penda’s Fen (1974), showing how both involve the mythopoeic reinvention of Anglo-Saxon Mercia as a heartland of visionary change. These texts resist alien beliefs and defend territorial integrity, but also extend a welcome to outsiders or incomers. Stoker and Rudkin turn the storied landscape of ancient Mercia…
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