Caroline Magennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5139752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Magennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Magennis |
| SIGNATURE | MAGENNIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3738-8534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Corporeal, raging”
This paper seeks to reflect on the representational history of the body in writing from the North, with a focus on contemporary texts which take embodied experiences as their narrative catalysts. It will also discuss the physical work of writing in our discipline, and particularly in texts which border on life writing and autoethnography. Irish feminist critique has, for decades, thought meticulously through the symbolic potential and representat…
Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prize The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This open access book explores contemporary Northern Irish fiction and how the ‘post’-conflict period has led write…
Re-writing Protestant history in the novels of Glenn Patterson
This article considers the representation of the history of Belfast in Glenn Patterson's 2012 novel The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. It situates this novel within the context of Patterson's previous work and the history of the Northern Irish novel, as well as with the representation of maritime Belfast in the Titanic centenary year. This novel will be read as a recovery and rehabilitation of a Protestant history which could be problematic …
Rock and popular music in Ireland
Masculinity and Irish popular culture
Mary Lavin
Each fantasy chosen begin’
This article considers the cultural and social context for the music of the Northern Irish band The Divine Comedy. It focuses on three mid-1990s albums – Liberation (1993), Promenade (1994) and Casanova (1996) – and debates the significance of this performance of alternative Ulster masculinity during the peace process. It will detail the lyrical obsession with a very particular type of imagined Anglo-Irishness during the first two of these albums…
That Great Swollen Belly’
This essay will consider the representation of the maternal in some contemporary Northern Irish fiction written by men. It will examine, using feminist theories of embodiment and subjectivity, the power of the maternal image in Irish literary and critical discourse. The work of Julia Kristeva, Elizabeth Grosz and Mikhail Bakhtin will be employed in this argument. The pregnant body has the power to radically unsettle order, and this essay will exp…
Sons of Ulster
Contents: The Grotesque Feminine in the Northern Irish Imagination - The Problem of Gender and Vision in Northern Ireland - The Body Abject in Ripley Bogle - The Hermeneutics of the Tortured Body in Resurrection Man - Self Reflexivity and Performativity in Eureka Street and Ripley Bogle - Postmodern 'Hard Men' in the Novels of Jason Johnson and Eoin McNamee - Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Irish Fiction - Patriarchy, Masculinity and Fa…
Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prize The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This open access book explores contemporary Northern Irish fiction and how the ‘post’-conflict period has led write…
That Great Swollen Belly’
This essay will consider the representation of the maternal in some contemporary Northern Irish fiction written by men. It will examine, using feminist theories of embodiment and subjectivity, the power of the maternal image in Irish literary and critical discourse. The work of Julia Kristeva, Elizabeth Grosz and Mikhail Bakhtin will be employed in this argument. The pregnant body has the power to radically unsettle order, and this essay will exp…
Sons of Ulster
Contents: The Grotesque Feminine in the Northern Irish Imagination - The Problem of Gender and Vision in Northern Ireland - The Body Abject in Ripley Bogle - The Hermeneutics of the Tortured Body in Resurrection Man - Self Reflexivity and Performativity in Eureka Street and Ripley Bogle - Postmodern 'Hard Men' in the Novels of Jason Johnson and Eoin McNamee - Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Irish Fiction - Patriarchy, Masculinity and Fa…
That Great Swollen Belly’
This essay will consider the representation of the maternal in some contemporary Northern Irish fiction written by men. It will examine, using feminist theories of embodiment and subjectivity, the power of the maternal image in Irish literary and critical discourse. The work of Julia Kristeva, Elizabeth Grosz and Mikhail Bakhtin will be employed in this argument. The pregnant body has the power to radically unsettle order, and this essay will exp…
Sons of Ulster
Contents: The Grotesque Feminine in the Northern Irish Imagination - The Problem of Gender and Vision in Northern Ireland - The Body Abject in Ripley Bogle - The Hermeneutics of the Tortured Body in Resurrection Man - Self Reflexivity and Performativity in Eureka Street and Ripley Bogle - Postmodern 'Hard Men' in the Novels of Jason Johnson and Eoin McNamee - Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Irish Fiction - Patriarchy, Masculinity and Fa…
Each fantasy chosen begin’
This article considers the cultural and social context for the music of the Northern Irish band The Divine Comedy. It focuses on three mid-1990s albums – Liberation (1993), Promenade (1994) and Casanova (1996) – and debates the significance of this performance of alternative Ulster masculinity during the peace process. It will detail the lyrical obsession with a very particular type of imagined Anglo-Irishness during the first two of these albums…
Rock and popular music in Ireland
Masculinity and Irish popular culture
Mary Lavin
Re-writing Protestant history in the novels of Glenn Patterson
This article considers the representation of the history of Belfast in Glenn Patterson's 2012 novel The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. It situates this novel within the context of Patterson's previous work and the history of the Northern Irish novel, as well as with the representation of maritime Belfast in the Titanic centenary year. This novel will be read as a recovery and rehabilitation of a Protestant history which could be problematic …
Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prize The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This open access book explores contemporary Northern Irish fiction and how the ‘post’-conflict period has led write…
“Corporeal, raging”
This paper seeks to reflect on the representational history of the body in writing from the North, with a focus on contemporary texts which take embodied experiences as their narrative catalysts. It will also discuss the physical work of writing in our discipline, and particularly in texts which border on life writing and autoethnography. Irish feminist critique has, for decades, thought meticulously through the symbolic potential and representat…
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