Serving the Storyline of the Novel: The Powerful Role of the Feudal Servant-Narrator
This thesis addresses issues of class as represented through the narrative agency exercised by the servant-narrator in Castle Rackrent and Wuthering Heights. Thady Quirk and Ellen Dean are servant-narrators who strategically use feigned allegiance, astute perception, and selective disclosure to wield power over the lives of their masters. These “arts of subordination” allow the servant-narrator to tell his or her own life narrative, while appearing to share the masters’ memoirs. While both servant-narrators are motivated by economic means, Ellen Dean’s involvement throughout Wuthering Heights is further complicated by her desires of emotional connection. However, each servant-narrator achieves his or her goals by manipulating the events and relationships that constitute his or her masters’ lives.
The unappeasable host : studies in Irish identities
The cracked looking-glass of a servant - inventing the colonial novel Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan - legality versus legitimacy fiery shorthand - the Banim brothers at work self-fashioning as pseudo-history - Roger O'Connor's "Chronicles of Eri" Sheridan Le Fanu and the Unmentionable that rooted man - Yeats, "John Sherman" and "Dhoya" long division in the long schoolroom - among school children intelligible on the Blasket Islands - Yeats's "King Oedipus", 1926 merging into art - "The Death of Cuchulain" and the death of Yeats living in the margin - Synge in Aran words of mouth - Joyce and the oral tradition Mr Joker and Dr Hyde - Joyce's politic polyglot polygraphs in the heart of the Theban necropolis - mummyscripts and mummiescrypts in "Finnegan's Wake" the burning roof and tower - identity in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Last September" Elizabeth Bowen - rebuilding the big house a ghost of style exorcising the Anglo-Irish past.
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
* Introduction: The Arab Spring: The End of Postcoloniality * 1. Decentering the World: How the Arab Spring Unfolded * 2. Towards Liberation Geography * 3. A New Language of Revolt * 4. Discovering a New World * 5. From the Green Movement to the Jasmine Revolutions * 6. The center cannot hold * 7. The End of Postcolonialism * 8. Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Revolutions * 9. Libya: The Crucible * 10. Delayed Defiance * Conclusion. The People Demand the Overthrow of the Regime