This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminac
This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings to
Numerous dimensions of the Gothic and its relationship to the past are still under-explored. With this in mind, The Gothic and the Everyday aims to draw attention to one facet of the Gothic in particu
The organizers of the May 2008 conference at the University of Limerick solicited papers from academics working in a variety of areas, and were rewarded with a broad array of perspectives on both exam
In recent decades, theoretical and critical studies have oscillated between, on the one hand, wrestling otherness from a condition in which it is dependent on and defined relative to the notion of the
