W J Mccormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 4891104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W J Mccormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | W J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMACK W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Foras Áiseanna Saothair |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87)
This biography of the influential Irish poet and gallery curator moves from his origins in non-conformist Belfast through his local education, early efforts at writing, the left-wing politics of the 1930s and war years to his final days of retirement back in his native city. It is grounded in original and detailed archival research into Hewitt’s manuscripts, literary and personal. The poetry is treated closely, especially the experimental (and un…
‘The Colony’ (1949–50)
Contains the full text of ‘The Colony’ followed by a critical analysis with the present author’s interpretation, and citing responses by Terence Brown, Denis Donoghue, Paul Muldoon, and Douglas Sealy.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Values and Violence
Dissolute Characters
Part 1 On literary history: cashiering the gothic tradition between Balzac and Yeats Swedenborg's ghost. Part 2 Le Fanu and his past: mediating the past - House in the Church-Yard the parochial and the exotic - two tales of 1861-2 beginning the English novels characters beheaded with mottoes towards a theory of public opinion Freezing Brightness Gottfied Schalcken in history and fiction. Part 3 The great enchantment: In A Glass Darkly serialism? …
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 To 1939
The period between Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology. This study uncovers the origins of Ascendancy and traces its cultural significance by means of a series of detailed critiques of central texts and concepts
Sheridan LeFanu and Victorian Ireland
This brilliant book, with rich materialat its disposal, links the life and the work; and without any forcing.' Irish Times
The Dublin University Magazine
Journal Article THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Get access W. J. MCCORMACK W. J. MCCORMACK 36 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, 6, Republic of Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 1974, Pages 106-c–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/21-3-106c Published: 01 March 1974
Language and Social Context
The Dublin University Magazine
Journal Article THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Get access W. J. MCCORMACK W. J. MCCORMACK 36 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, 6, Republic of Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 1974, Pages 106-c–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/21-3-106c Published: 01 March 1974
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 To 1939
The period between Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology. This study uncovers the origins of Ascendancy and traces its cultural significance by means of a series of detailed critiques of central texts and concepts
Language and Social Context
Sheridan LeFanu and Victorian Ireland
This brilliant book, with rich materialat its disposal, links the life and the work; and without any forcing.' Irish Times
Language and Social Context
The Dublin University Magazine
Journal Article THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Get access W. J. MCCORMACK W. J. MCCORMACK 36 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, 6, Republic of Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 1974, Pages 106-c–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/21-3-106c Published: 01 March 1974
Sheridan LeFanu and Victorian Ireland
This brilliant book, with rich materialat its disposal, links the life and the work; and without any forcing.' Irish Times
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 To 1939
The period between Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology. This study uncovers the origins of Ascendancy and traces its cultural significance by means of a series of detailed critiques of central texts and concepts
Dissolute Characters
Part 1 On literary history: cashiering the gothic tradition between Balzac and Yeats Swedenborg's ghost. Part 2 Le Fanu and his past: mediating the past - House in the Church-Yard the parochial and the exotic - two tales of 1861-2 beginning the English novels characters beheaded with mottoes towards a theory of public opinion Freezing Brightness Gottfied Schalcken in history and fiction. Part 3 The great enchantment: In A Glass Darkly serialism? …
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Values and Violence
Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87)
This biography of the influential Irish poet and gallery curator moves from his origins in non-conformist Belfast through his local education, early efforts at writing, the left-wing politics of the 1930s and war years to his final days of retirement back in his native city. It is grounded in original and detailed archival research into Hewitt’s manuscripts, literary and personal. The poetry is treated closely, especially the experimental (and un…
‘The Colony’ (1949–50)
Contains the full text of ‘The Colony’ followed by a critical analysis with the present author’s interpretation, and citing responses by Terence Brown, Denis Donoghue, Paul Muldoon, and Douglas Sealy.
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