Literature, rhetoric, and violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98 : hardened to death /
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: at War with Words
- On violence, broadly speaking
- Refining the criteria: Vergil and the Gospels
- Northern Ireland and the historical debate
- 2. The Iron Circle: on the Core Mechanisms of Violence
- Entrapment: variations on a theme
- Michael Longley: violence and the fragility of the civilized
- Brian Friel's Bloody Sunday: art containing outrage
- 3. Equivocations of the Fiend: Self-Deception and Poetic Diction
- Confused and complex diction: Seamus Heaney and others
- Lies, delusions and propaganda
- Getting a perspective: Derek Mahon's "semantic scruples"
- 4. The God of Battles: Violence and Sectarianism
- How important is religion, really?
- The return of the repressed: Padraic Fiacc and Billy Wright
- "Werewolves in Magherafelt": David Rudkin and Field Day
- 5. Shoot the Women First
- Subversion, incoherence and non-violence: Medbh McGuckian and others
- Representing violent women: stereotypes and hybrid fantasies
- Dealing with it: women and violence in Maurice Leitch, Jennifer Johnston and Nuala O'Faolain
- 6. Breaking the Circle
- "Pardon like rain": John Hewitt, Gordon Wilson and others
- Forgiveness and injury: Frank McGuinness and Robert McLiam Wilson
- Moral imagination and the rhetoric of reconciliation: John Hume, David Trimble and Bernard MacLaverty
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index