Cóilín Parsons
Biographic Data
| ID | 642248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cóilín Parsons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cóilín |
| FAMILY NAME | Parsons |
| SIGNATURE | PARSONS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Modernism, Empire, World Literature
“Ever westward the course of empire.” Bishop George Berkeley’s world-encompassing maxim has had its day—as has Berkeley himself—but it did for a spell help to define the contours of an idea that empire and power never rest, always searching for pastures and victims new. Yet Berkeley’s shorthand for the course of human history has always been precisely wrong, since it gives no account of what forces drive that westward movement, from Greece to Rom…
Asymmetries
In introducing this special issue on South African and Irish literature and culture, this essay offers a critical overview of the field of comparisons between these two former colonies. Though the cultural output of both sites is often figured as exceptional or incomparable, there is a constant drumbeat of popular comparisons between South Africa and Ireland, and the disciplines of history, political science, and conflict resolution have long com…
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature argues that a strand of Irish literature that we now recognize as modernist has its roots deep in the nineteenth century, in the attempt by the British government to map the entire island of Ireland for the first time. The Ordnance Survey in Ireland (1824–42) laid the foundation for a new way of looking at the physical and cultural landscape of Ireland, which recognized, represented, and often resis…
Mapping the Globe
Research Article| September 01 2014 Mapping the Globe: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh's Postcolonial Mappae Mundi Cóilín Parsons Cóilín Parsons Georgetown University [email protected] Cóilín Parsons is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He has published on Irish literature, postcolonialism, and modernism. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 189–198. https://doi.…
The Archive in Ruins
The construction and destruction of empire has been, from the beginning, a problem of human, political, economic and physical geography. Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the undertaking of a mapping project of unprecedented scale in the British Empire, and one whose legacy remains in dispute to the present day. On the one hand, the mapping of Ireland has been seen as of a kind with the often violent military surveying of all colonies; on the other,…
Scaling the Gifberge
Footnote1Despite its title, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town has largely not been read from the perspective of its engagement with spatial politics. Focusing on the stories' representations of cartography and cosmopolitan space, this essay argues that they produce a profoundly ambivalent sense of cosmopolitanism, one that is acutely aware of the difficulties of trying to shift scales from the local to the global, and of the loss of affect that thi…
Greatly Altered”
In the last months of her life , Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) returned to one of her earliest and most popular works, The Missionary: An Indian Tale (1811), and devoted time between attacks of severe bronchitis to revising it. The revised novel was published in 1859 under the name of Luxima, the Prophetess: A Tale of India . According to the unattributed preface to Luxima it was “greatly altered,” receiving the final touches only a few days befor…
The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2002
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2002
Greatly Altered”
In the last months of her life , Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) returned to one of her earliest and most popular works, The Missionary: An Indian Tale (1811), and devoted time between attacks of severe bronchitis to revising it. The revised novel was published in 1859 under the name of Luxima, the Prophetess: A Tale of India . According to the unattributed preface to Luxima it was “greatly altered,” receiving the final touches only a few days befor…
The Archive in Ruins
The construction and destruction of empire has been, from the beginning, a problem of human, political, economic and physical geography. Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the undertaking of a mapping project of unprecedented scale in the British Empire, and one whose legacy remains in dispute to the present day. On the one hand, the mapping of Ireland has been seen as of a kind with the often violent military surveying of all colonies; on the other,…
Scaling the Gifberge
Footnote1Despite its title, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town has largely not been read from the perspective of its engagement with spatial politics. Focusing on the stories' representations of cartography and cosmopolitan space, this essay argues that they produce a profoundly ambivalent sense of cosmopolitanism, one that is acutely aware of the difficulties of trying to shift scales from the local to the global, and of the loss of affect that thi…
Mapping the Globe
Research Article| September 01 2014 Mapping the Globe: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh's Postcolonial Mappae Mundi Cóilín Parsons Cóilín Parsons Georgetown University [email protected] Cóilín Parsons is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He has published on Irish literature, postcolonialism, and modernism. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 189–198. https://doi.…
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature argues that a strand of Irish literature that we now recognize as modernist has its roots deep in the nineteenth century, in the attempt by the British government to map the entire island of Ireland for the first time. The Ordnance Survey in Ireland (1824–42) laid the foundation for a new way of looking at the physical and cultural landscape of Ireland, which recognized, represented, and often resis…
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism
Asymmetries
In introducing this special issue on South African and Irish literature and culture, this essay offers a critical overview of the field of comparisons between these two former colonies. Though the cultural output of both sites is often figured as exceptional or incomparable, there is a constant drumbeat of popular comparisons between South Africa and Ireland, and the disciplines of history, political science, and conflict resolution have long com…
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Modernism, Empire, World Literature
“Ever westward the course of empire.” Bishop George Berkeley’s world-encompassing maxim has had its day—as has Berkeley himself—but it did for a spell help to define the contours of an idea that empire and power never rest, always searching for pastures and victims new. Yet Berkeley’s shorthand for the course of human history has always been precisely wrong, since it gives no account of what forces drive that westward movement, from Greece to Rom…
History (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Irish (4 works) · Literature (4 works)