Dearbhaile Sophie Houston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4606313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dearbhaile Sophie Houston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dearbhaile Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Houston |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSTON D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0916-0783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Counterpanes and linoleum caves
This article re-reads the use of images of domestic materiality in descriptions of landscape in three of Alice Munro’s short stories concerned with memories of abuse, violence and death in light of Andrea Skinner’s revelations of July 2024. Disrupted domestic materiality is identified as domestic imagery incorporated into descriptions of landscape which destabilize spatial boundaries and intensify the shared threat of exterior and interior spaces…
Love, Honour, Obey, Destroy
This article explores the representation of the family home in the wake of divorce through a comparative reading of Rachel Cusk’s memoir Aftermath (2012) and Deborah Levy’s autobiography The Cost of Living (2018). Examining what is at stake in the “unmaking” of one iteration of home in these examples of contemporary life writing, this article contends that Cusk and Levy’s texts illustrate wider cultural anxieties regarding the status and function…
Introduction
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." 1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner.The idea of a world without work might well jar with our contemporary minds, as indeed it might have with the working classes of Wilde's own times.Recent world events have put conventional forms of work under strain as well as highlighting forms of work we might p…
It’s a lot of work”
Through reading forms of domestic labour undertaken by the two daughter figures of Anne Enright’s 2015 novel, The Green Road, this article contends that the novel not only captures the everyday texture of contemporary Irish gender norms but also reveals the interdependency between constructions of Irish womanhood and labour as signified by Article 41.2 – the infamous “women in the home” article – of the Irish Constitution. In this way, the types …
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Introduction
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." 1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner.The idea of a world without work might well jar with our contemporary minds, as indeed it might have with the working classes of Wilde's own times.Recent world events have put conventional forms of work under strain as well as highlighting forms of work we might p…
It’s a lot of work”
Through reading forms of domestic labour undertaken by the two daughter figures of Anne Enright’s 2015 novel, The Green Road, this article contends that the novel not only captures the everyday texture of contemporary Irish gender norms but also reveals the interdependency between constructions of Irish womanhood and labour as signified by Article 41.2 – the infamous “women in the home” article – of the Irish Constitution. In this way, the types …
Love, Honour, Obey, Destroy
This article explores the representation of the family home in the wake of divorce through a comparative reading of Rachel Cusk’s memoir Aftermath (2012) and Deborah Levy’s autobiography The Cost of Living (2018). Examining what is at stake in the “unmaking” of one iteration of home in these examples of contemporary life writing, this article contends that Cusk and Levy’s texts illustrate wider cultural anxieties regarding the status and function…
Counterpanes and linoleum caves
This article re-reads the use of images of domestic materiality in descriptions of landscape in three of Alice Munro’s short stories concerned with memories of abuse, violence and death in light of Andrea Skinner’s revelations of July 2024. Disrupted domestic materiality is identified as domestic imagery incorporated into descriptions of landscape which destabilize spatial boundaries and intensify the shared threat of exterior and interior spaces…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetic experience (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Celtic Tiger (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Consumerism (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work)