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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem
from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor
administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century
English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the
period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework
that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional
change of the island from lordship to kingdom to the end of the
conquest in 1603. The mounting impetus to bring Ireland to a
"complete" conquest during these years has, quite naturally, led
critics to associate England's reform strategies with Irish
Otherness. The preoccupation with this discourse of difference is
also perceived as the "Irish Problem," a blanket term broadly used
to describe just about every aspect of Irishness incompatible with
the English imperialist ideologies. The term stresses everything
that is "wrong" with the Irish nation-Ireland was a problem to be
resolved. This book takes a different approach towards the "Irish
Problem." Instead of rehashing the English government's complaints
of the recalcitrant Irish and the long struggle to impose royal
authority in Ireland, I posit that the "Irish Problem" was very
much shaped and developed by a larger "English Problem," namely
English dissent within the English government. The discussions in
this book focuse on the ways in which English writers articulated
their knowledge and anxieties of the "English Problem" in
sixteenth-century literary and historical narratives. This book
reappraises the limitations of the "Irish Problem," and argues that
the crown's failure to control dissent within its own ranks was as
detrimental to the conquest as the "Irish Problem," if not more so,
and finally, it attempts to demonstrate how dissent translate into
governance and conquest in early modern Ireland.
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem
from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor
administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century
English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the
period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework
that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional
change of the island from lordship to kingdom to the end of the
conquest in 1603. The mounting impetus to bring Ireland to a
"complete" conquest during these years has, quite naturally, led
critics to associate England's reform strategies with Irish
Otherness. The preoccupation with this discourse of difference is
also perceived as the "Irish Problem," a blanket term broadly used
to describe just about every aspect of Irishness incompatible with
the English imperialist ideologies. The term stresses everything
that is "wrong" with the Irish nation-Ireland was a problem to be
resolved. This book takes a different approach towards the "Irish
Problem." Instead of rehashing the English government's complaints
of the recalcitrant Irish and the long struggle to impose royal
authority in Ireland, I posit that the "Irish Problem" was very
much shaped and developed by a larger "English Problem," namely
English dissent within the English government. The discussions in
this book focuse on the ways in which English writers articulated
their knowledge and anxieties of the "English Problem" in
sixteenth-century literary and historical narratives. This book
reappraises the limitations of the "Irish Problem," and argues that
the crown's failure to control dissent within its own ranks was as
detrimental to the conquest as the "Irish Problem," if not more so,
and finally, it attempts to demonstrate how dissent translate into
governance and conquest in early modern Ireland.
While the Absurd is frequently used to analyze Harold Pinter's
work, some aspects have been long overlooked in Pinter criticism -
contemplation and affirmation. Many scholars note the menacing,
dark, and sinister qualities of Pinter's works, however there is a
lack of alternative interpretations and very little attention has
been paid to the affirmative aspects of his plays. This work
remedies the lack by examining these aspects, in particular the
characters' focus on overcoming trying circumstances, their
persistence in the pursuit of freedom, and their stoic but
courageous attitudes toward a fate they cannot avoid. Using Martin
Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine
Pinter's works, Jane Wong Yeang Chui brings the complexities and
intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and
audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies
of his plays.
An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selves Honest,
aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on
loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are
forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame,
multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and
resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path
stemming from one small choice that both creates new selves and
negates potential selves. Giving voice to pain while complicating
personal truths, self-elegies are an ideal poetic form for our
time, compelling us to question our close-minded certainties, heal
divides, and rethink our relation to others. Â In Writing the
Self-Elegy, poet Kara Dorris introduces us to this prismatic
tradition and its potential to forge new worlds. The self-elegies
she includes in this anthology mix autobiography and poetics,
blending craft with race, gender, sexuality, ability and
disability, and place—all of the private and public elements that
build individual and social identity. These poems reflect our
complicated present while connecting us to our past, acting as
lenses for understanding, and defining the self while facilitating
reinvention. The twenty-eight poets included in this volume each
practice self-elegy differently, realizing the full range of the
form. In addition to a short essay that encapsulates the core value
of the genre and its structural power, each poet’s contribution
concludes with writing prompts that will be an inspiration inside
the classroom and out. This is an anthology readers will keep close
and share, exemplifying a style of writing that is as playful as it
is interrogative and that restores the self in its confrontation
with grief.
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