Alison Garden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Garden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Garden |
| SIGNATURE | GARDEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2700-9155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Like a bee's sting or a bullet: Eroticism, violence and the afterlives of colonial romance in Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master and Other Poems (1993)
The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016
This groundbreaking study explores the literary afterlives of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial son: Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British imperialism and an enthusiastic recorder of a sexual life lived in the shadows, Casement has endured as a symbol of ambivalence and multiplicity. Casement can be found in the most curious of places: fr…
Girlhood, Desire, Memory, and Northern Ireland in Lucy Caldwell’s Short Fiction
This essay discusses two short stories of girlhood written by Lucy Caldwell: “Mayday” (2016) and “Here We Are” (2017). It argues that although Caldwell’s fiction is mobilized by an engagement with the politics of Northern Ireland, it is not the physical violence of “the Troubles” that animates her work. Rather, her stories are concerned with the broader reverberations of the conflict and its aftermath; the conservative political climate that char…
We Listen for What the Waves Intone: Intertextuality and the Circum-Atlantic Poetics of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes
This article argues that the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes constructs the Atlantic space as an oceanic intertext. Utilising Joseph Roach’s notion of the circum-Atlantic, this article examines how Trethewey’s and Dawes’ intertextual engagement with Heaney highlights how the Atlantic rim retains ‘a memory imperfectly deferred’. Through tracing connections between the work of Heaney, Dawes and Trethewey it becomes appare…
We Listen for What the Waves Intone: Intertextuality and the Circum-Atlantic Poetics of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes
This article argues that the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes constructs the Atlantic space as an oceanic intertext. Utilising Joseph Roach’s notion of the circum-Atlantic, this article examines how Trethewey’s and Dawes’ intertextual engagement with Heaney highlights how the Atlantic rim retains ‘a memory imperfectly deferred’. Through tracing connections between the work of Heaney, Dawes and Trethewey it becomes appare…
We Listen for What the Waves Intone: Intertextuality and the Circum-Atlantic Poetics of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes
This article argues that the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes constructs the Atlantic space as an oceanic intertext. Utilising Joseph Roach’s notion of the circum-Atlantic, this article examines how Trethewey’s and Dawes’ intertextual engagement with Heaney highlights how the Atlantic rim retains ‘a memory imperfectly deferred’. Through tracing connections between the work of Heaney, Dawes and Trethewey it becomes appare…
Girlhood, Desire, Memory, and Northern Ireland in Lucy Caldwell’s Short Fiction
This essay discusses two short stories of girlhood written by Lucy Caldwell: “Mayday” (2016) and “Here We Are” (2017). It argues that although Caldwell’s fiction is mobilized by an engagement with the politics of Northern Ireland, it is not the physical violence of “the Troubles” that animates her work. Rather, her stories are concerned with the broader reverberations of the conflict and its aftermath; the conservative political climate that char…
The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016
This groundbreaking study explores the literary afterlives of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial son: Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British imperialism and an enthusiastic recorder of a sexual life lived in the shadows, Casement has endured as a symbol of ambivalence and multiplicity. Casement can be found in the most curious of places: fr…
Like a bee's sting or a bullet: Eroticism, violence and the afterlives of colonial romance in Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master and Other Poems (1993)
Art (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Irish (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)