Publication:
William Trevor: Revaluations, Delaney, Parker (eds);
Publication type:
Book Part
Abstract:
William Trevor’s short story ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ (1972) has attained iconic status in Irish culture in the forty years since its publication. The title and ambience of the story, evoking memories of dancehall days, partly explains this public appeal, which was enhanced by the BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of the story by Pat O’Connor (1982).
The area of feminist culture(s), specifically the kinds of cultural production that
emerged during the second-wave women’s movement in Ireland, is one which
remains largely under-researched and under-represented. In ...
The emergence of the second wave of the women’s movement in Ireland tends to
be associated chiefly with campaigns concerning reproductive rights and equality
in employment. Against this backdrop, the ways in which the ...
O'Toole, Tina(John Hopkins University Press, 2014)
The name of George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright)
(1859–1945) became practically synonymous with decadence
when Elkin Mathews and John Lane’s partnership, the Bodley
Head, published her sexually bold first ...
Monique Wittig, addressing ideological activism and social change at
the end of the twentieth century, proposes the Trojan Horse as a model
for counter-cultural movements and avant-garde writers: ‘at the time it is
produced, ...
‘Books continue each other’,Virginia Woolf suggests, ‘in spite of our
habit of judging them separately’. Elizabeth Bowen’s final work Eva
Trout (1968) is clearly a case in point in that in order to fully realize ...
