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‘A Poem Made Flesh’: Necromancing the Sovereignty Goddess in Emma Donoghue’s Hood “一首变成肉体的诗”:为艾玛·多诺霍的《胡德》中的主权女神赋予死灵

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0596

Lauren Cassidy

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Reality Deterioration and Academic Precarity through the Lens of J. S. Le Fanu’s Wylder’s Hand and ‘The Haunted Baronet’ 从勒法努的《怀尔德之手》和《闹鬼的女男爵》看现实的恶化和学术的不稳定

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0590

Sean Aldrich O’Rourke

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Maureen O’Connor, Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction 莫林·奥康纳，埃德娜·奥布莱恩和小说艺术

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0600

D. Houston

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Lisa Fitzpatrick and Shonagh Hill, eds., Plays by Women in Ireland (1926–33): Feminist Theatres of Freedom and Resistance: Distinguished Villa; The Woman; Youth's the Season; Witch's Brew; Bluebeard 丽莎·菲茨帕特里克和肖娜·希尔主编。《爱尔兰女性戏剧(1926 - 1933):自由与反抗的女性主义戏剧:杰出的别墅》;女人;青春是季节;女巫的酿造;蓝胡子

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0604

Ciara O’Dowd

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Gothic Realism, or Reading is Believing in Dracula 哥特式现实主义，或者说阅读相信德古拉

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0587

Renée Fox

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Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War Síobhra艾肯，精神创伤:创伤，证词和爱尔兰内战

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0599

Fionnuala Walsh

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Introduction: Irish Gothic Studies Today 导言:今天的爱尔兰哥特式研究

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0586

Christina Morin, Ellen Scheible

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Front matter 前页

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0583

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Irish Minerva Writers and the Affordances of Big Data: Some Preliminary Findings 爱尔兰Minerva作家与大数据的承载：一些初步发现

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0588

E. Kearns, Christina Morin

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Haunting the ‘Proper Body’: Disability, Contagion, and Citizenship in Irish and Scottish Novels of the Union 萦绕在“适当的身体”:爱尔兰和苏格兰联合小说中的残疾、传染和公民身份

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/iur.2023.0589

Matthew L. Reznicek

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