101 research outputs found
Objects Matter: An Object-Oriented Reading of Eavan Boland’s Object Lessons
Este artigo argumenta que, embora o livro Object Lessons de Eavan Boland tenha alcançado grandes conquistas em termos da visibilidade das poetas no cenário literário irlandês, seu projeto expressou e reforçou o momento Mary Robinson do início do Tigre Celta. A presente era, ecologicamente ameaçada, é um chamado para a reavaliação crítica e o questionamento da dicotomia sujeito-objeto que está no cerne de sua argumentação. Muitas, senão a maioria das dificuldades apontadas pelos leitores de Boland e das críticas dirigidas à sua obra têm como ponto de partida a constituição de uma subjetividade poética feminina e, posteriormente, a natureza problemática dos objetos e da natureza criada pelo próprio gesto. Enquanto a atribuição da subjetividade e, portanto, agência, às mulheres na poesia foi um rompimento indispensável de diversas formas de política e autoridade religiosa, novas estruturas conceituais, como os novos materialismos e ontologia surgiram desde então, que descorrelacionam a agência da subjetividade, repensando completamente o status dos objetos. Apoiada principalmente na aplicação da ontologia orientada a objetos de Timothy Morton para questões ambientais, eu mostro como a leitura de Object Lessons sem a distinção sujeito-objeto aborda algumas das críticas dirigidas a Boland e destaca o valor ecológico de sua prosa e obra poética.This article argues that although Eavan Boland’s Object Lessons has reached considerable achievements in terms of the visibility of women poets in the Irish literary landscape, her project expressed and reinforced the Mary Robinson moment of the early Celtic Tiger. The present ecologically endangered era calls for a critical reappraisal and a questioning of the subject-object dichotomy that lies at the heart of its argument. Many, if not most of the difficulties pointed out by Boland’s readers and the criticisms levelled at her work have as their point of departure the constitution of a feminine poetic subjectivity and the subsequently problematic nature of objects and nature created by the very gesture. While attributing subjectivity, and therefore agency, to women in poetry was certainly an indispensable breaking away from various forms of political and religious authority, new conceptual frameworks such as the new materialisms and object-oriented ontology have emerged since, that de-correlate agency from subjectivity, thus re-thinking altogether the status of objects. Drawing mostly from Timothy Morton’s application of object-oriented ontology to environmental matters, I show how reading Object Lessons without the subject-object distinction addresses some of the criticisms directed at Boland and highlights the ecological value of her poetic and prose work
Patrick Fitzgerald and Anthony Russell (eds), John Mitchel, Ulster and the Great Famine
This collection of essays is based upon the contributions to the annual Great Famine Commemoration of 2015, when the event was held for the first north of the border, in Newry. The occasion of the location of the conference provides the volume with one of its two central lines of questioning: most of the contributions thus set about revising the popular perception that Ulster got off rather lightly in the Famine, especially in comparison with the horrendous suffering witnessed by the South an..
Narration as Conversation: Patterns of Community-making in Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family
Cet article se propose d’étudier le fonctionnement des conversations dans le dernier recueil de nouvelles de Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family, et leur importance dans la définition, ou la création, d’un sentiment d’identité collective. Considérant que ce sentiment d’appartenance est construit non seulement par l’interaction entre l’individu et son environnement, mais aussi à travers la sociabilité conversationnelle, on examinera tout d’abord les conversations entre personnages, au niveau intra-diégétique. Celles-ci, qui peuvent être coercives ou non, fondées sur l’échange ou le partage, la compétition ou la coopération, articulent les tensions qui traversent l’Irlande contemporaine en tant que communauté. On se demandera finalement dans quelle mesure la conversation, cette fois entre plans narratologiques différents, entre narrateur et narrataire ou entre texte ou auteur (implicite) et lecteur fournit au texte de Tóibín sa structure éthique, et donc réalise au niveau de ses relations textuelles le modèle de communauté désiré par son inconscient politique
Quelle poésie de la sortie de guerre en Irlande du Nord ? L’exemple de Breaking News de Ciaran Carson (2003) et The State of the Prisons (2005) de Sinéad Morrissey
Cet article se propose d’examiner deux exemples de la production poétique nord-irlandaise d’après 1998, et de déterminer en quoi leur écriture interroge les changements politiques intervenus depuis les accords du vendredi saint, et les enjeux de son propre renouvellement. Si les thèmes traités dans Breaking News et The State of the Prisons sont classiques de la littérature des Troubles, la réflexion mise en place sur le rôle de la guerre dans l’histoire et dans l’écriture poétique creuse les fondations d’une littérature de l’après-Troubles.This paper offers a critical reading of two collections of poetry written after 1998. Its aim is to discuss how Breaking News and The State of the Prisons respond to the political changes inaugurated by the Good Friday Agreement, and their own need for literary renewal. Although the thematic concerns of these two collections still hard back to the Troubles era, their investigation of the role of war in both history and the writing of poetry lays the basis of a post-Troubles literature
Writing at the Crossroads: Communication and Community-Making in Ciaran Carson’s Last Night’s Fun
Cet article examine les modalités de la rencontre entre écriture littéraire et musique traditionnelle irlandaise. Le carrefour où a lieu cette rencontre est ici Last Night’s Fun, livre publié en 1996 par le poète et musicien traditionnel nord-irlandais Ciaran Carson, qui y évoque de manière inventive son expérience des sessions irlandaises. La mise en écriture d’une forme artistique basée sur l’oralité et la gestualité n’est pas sans poser d’importants défis à l’écrivain qui souhaite exprimer la vivante authenticité du “crack”. En utilisant le cadre défini par la critique communicationnelle, on montre que la difficulté principale de l’écrivain réside dans la différence de taille et de nature entre les communautés de réception des deux formes artistiques (musique et littérature), avant d’évoquer quelques-unes des stratégies d’écriture qui permettent au texte de s(t)imuler chez le lecteur le plaisir d’une tradition musicale orale
Seamus Heaney, La lucarne, suivi de L’étrange et le connu
La réédition de deux recueils de Seamus Heaney dans la collection « Poésie » de Gallimard constitue sans conteste un geste de consécration du poète irlandais dans la littérature francophone, une reconnaissance bienvenue du caractère universel et indispensable de sa poésie. La lucarne (Seeing Things) et L’étrange et le connu (The Spirit Level) avaient été publiés chez Gallimard en édition bilingue en 2005. Ce volume reprend les deux traductions sans l’original, avec une nouvelle préface (remar..
Jim Smyth (ed.), Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland, University of Notre-Dame Press, 2017
This collection of essays edited by Jim Smyth, from the University of Notre Dame, is published, very timely, in the middle of the “decade of commemorations”. The issue of remembering, always very pressing in Ireland, is even more so when the country commemorates the centenary of the period that saw it through the Ulster Covenant, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising, the Anglo-Irish war and the Civil War. The present collection is informed right from ..
Introduction
The Emerald Isle, for all her lush pastures and forty shades of green, proved relatively impervious to environmental pursuits in the cultural and academic spheres or in economic and social circles, until the fall of the Celtic Tiger. The Celtic Tiger years successfully relied on, and reflected, a dual picture of global business attractiveness and unspoiled nature, promoting the pure waters of Green Erin – together with its fiscal leniency – as the ideal setting for pharmaceutical and IT compa..
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We reported that iron influx drives the translational expression of the neuronal amyloid precursor protein (APP), which has a role in iron efflux. This is via a classic release of repressor interaction of APP mRNA with iron-regulatory protein-1 (IRP1) whereas IRP2 controls the mRNAs encoding the L- and H-subunits of the iron storage protein, ferritin. Here, we identified thirteen potent APP translation blockers that acted selectively towards the uniquely configured iron-responsive element (IRE) RNA stem loop in the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of APP mRNA. These agents were 10-fold less inhibitory of 5′UTR sequences of the related prion protein (PrP) mRNA. Western blotting confirmed that the ‘ninth’ small molecule in the series selectively reduced neural APP production in SH-SY5Y cells at picomolar concentrations without affecting viability or the expression of α-synuclein and ferritin. APP blocker-9 (JTR-009), a benzimidazole, reduced the production of toxic Aβ in SH-SY5Y neuronal cells to a greater extent than other well tolerated APP 5′UTR-directed translation blockers, including posiphen, that were shown to limit amyloid burden in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD). RNA binding assays demonstrated that JTR-009 operated by preventing IRP1 from binding to the IRE in APP mRNA, while maintaining IRP1 interaction with the H-ferritin IRE RNA stem loop. Thus, JTR-009 constitutively repressed translation driven by APP 5′UTR sequences. Calcein staining showed that JTR-009 did not indirectly change iron uptake in neuronal cells suggesting a direct interaction with the APP 5′UTR. These studies provide key data to develop small molecules that selectively reduce neural APP and Aβ production at 10-fold lower concentrations than related previously characterized translation blockers. Our data evidenced a novel therapeutic strategy of potential impact for people with trisomy of the APP gene on chromosome 21, which is a phenotype long associated with Down syndrome (DS) that can also cause familial Alzheimer's disease
Urban ecopoetics “The Ulster Way”: Landscapes and communities in the poetry of Leontia Flynn and Allan Gillis
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