Moy McCrory
Biographic Data
| ID | 6874680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moy McCrory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moy |
| FAMILY NAME | McCrory |
| SIGNATURE | MCCRORY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Derby |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8433-7414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossings
Creative non-fiction about a personal experience of early miscarriage, which is a largely hidden loss. Reflecting on experiences in the early 1990s, a background of Northern Irish Catholicism, where women’s fertility is rigorously controlled, both informs attitudes and gives way to an earlier memory in the late seventies, where I felt I was in control of my fertility. However, the present reflection now considers reproductive control as something…
Being Various
Review of: Being Various: New Irish Short Stories , Lucy Caldwell (ed.) (2019) London: Faber & Faber, 368 pp., ISBN 978-0-57135-410-8, p/bk, £9.99
Report on the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 13–16 July 2016
An attendee’s summing up of an international conference on the short story: ‘Influence and Confluence in the short story: East and West’ which raises questions of identity, ownership, ‘othering’ and reveals the differences aired, notably those of writer versus scholar, and writer versus critic, roles which, while not always seen as convergent in the academy, are in practice fulfilled by authors equally
Primo Levi as storyteller
The varied forms of short prose writing used by Primo Levi in his continued narrative of the Holocaust allows a reconsideration of him as not merely its witness, but also as its storyteller. Taking The Periodic Table ([1975] 1986) as a conscious shift in Levi’s writing direction this article examines where the fictional developments and memory collide, and attempts to assess if this produces a more memorable format in order to reveal a difficult …
Coins at the Courts of Innsbruck and Florence
The princes of Renaissance Europe regarded a numismatic cabinet as an essential part of their collections, and the Medici Grand Dukes were well known for their cabinet in which ancient coins and modern medals were given prominence. They were sometimes consulted on numismatic matters by their contemporaries. So it was that Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol sought advice rom Francesco I de' Medici both regarding medalhc prototypes of his Tyrolese pred…
The wrong vocation
Crossings
Creative non-fiction about a personal experience of early miscarriage, which is a largely hidden loss. Reflecting on experiences in the early 1990s, a background of Northern Irish Catholicism, where women’s fertility is rigorously controlled, both informs attitudes and gives way to an earlier memory in the late seventies, where I felt I was in control of my fertility. However, the present reflection now considers reproductive control as something…
The wrong vocation
Coins at the Courts of Innsbruck and Florence
The princes of Renaissance Europe regarded a numismatic cabinet as an essential part of their collections, and the Medici Grand Dukes were well known for their cabinet in which ancient coins and modern medals were given prominence. They were sometimes consulted on numismatic matters by their contemporaries. So it was that Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol sought advice rom Francesco I de' Medici both regarding medalhc prototypes of his Tyrolese pred…
Primo Levi as storyteller
The varied forms of short prose writing used by Primo Levi in his continued narrative of the Holocaust allows a reconsideration of him as not merely its witness, but also as its storyteller. Taking The Periodic Table ([1975] 1986) as a conscious shift in Levi’s writing direction this article examines where the fictional developments and memory collide, and attempts to assess if this produces a more memorable format in order to reveal a difficult …
Report on the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 13–16 July 2016
An attendee’s summing up of an international conference on the short story: ‘Influence and Confluence in the short story: East and West’ which raises questions of identity, ownership, ‘othering’ and reveals the differences aired, notably those of writer versus scholar, and writer versus critic, roles which, while not always seen as convergent in the academy, are in practice fulfilled by authors equally
Being Various
Review of: Being Various: New Irish Short Stories , Lucy Caldwell (ed.) (2019) London: Faber & Faber, 368 pp., ISBN 978-0-57135-410-8, p/bk, £9.99
Crossings
Creative non-fiction about a personal experience of early miscarriage, which is a largely hidden loss. Reflecting on experiences in the early 1990s, a background of Northern Irish Catholicism, where women’s fertility is rigorously controlled, both informs attitudes and gives way to an earlier memory in the late seventies, where I felt I was in control of my fertility. However, the present reflection now considers reproductive control as something…
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