Textualities ‘18

Official Page for the UCC Postgrad Textualities Conference 2018. Promoting the thoughts and ideas from Modernities and Irish Writing & Film Studies programmes.

[Lisa Doucette @givelisachance]

Just witnessed @iseverythingaok give a wonderful presentation on Ali Smith’s work! Such a natural presence behind the podium. #Textualities18 #EN6009

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And that concludes this year’s conference! Thank you so much to everyone who attended, and congratulations to all our MA students for incredible presentations! #Textualities18

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Onto our final Q&A session, providing a deeper look into both topics discussed in this panel! #Textualities18

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Alan ends the panel by discussing the female artist in Ali Smith’s Autumn! #Textualities18

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Bao discusses the representations of aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s work in his presentation! #Textualities18

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For our final panel, we have Bao Ma and Alan O’Keeffe! #Textualities18

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Hannah looks at The Great Gatsby and The Wicker Man as adaptations of The Waste Land! #Textualities18

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Keziah compares Annie Proulx’s short stories to fairytales in her presentation! #Textualities18

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In Lisa’s presentation, she examines the role of voyeurism in Ulysses and Psycho! #Textualities18

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Next up for Panel 5 is Lisa Doucette, Keziah Knight, and Hannah Pratt! #Textualities18

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Martha challenges the idea of ‘blow-ins’ being less knowledgeable than locals about the land in Ireland! #Textualities18

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Elisa discusses how the Beat Generation makes use of grotesque realism in her presentation! #Textualities18

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Marty’s presentation looks into the inadequacy of language for representing the conscience in Samuel Beckett’s work! #Textualities18

[UCCBookends24 @UCCBookends]

Many thanks to @Textualities18 for having us this morning. We really enjoyed hearing your excellent papers, and sneaking a few pain au chocolats. We hope to hear from all of you again at Bookends! #textualities18 #UCCBookends18

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Lunchtime is over! Kicking off Panel 4 with Marty Rath, Elisa Sabbadin, and Martha Quirke in a few minutes! #Textualities18

[Lisa Doucette @givelisachance]

We just had a lovely panel by @murphys_law031, Yan and Mary discussing trans-humanism in Frankenstein; parallels between Joyce and Hans Christian Anderson, and different perceptions of the Sublime! #en6009 #textualities18 #english #MA #lunchtime #gettinghangry

[John Woods @johnwoods93]

Phone blowing up with all the live tweeting, we're getting the buzz of an academic conference and a thriving social life all at once. Now I see why #Textualities18 gives 75 mins for lunch #overstiumulated

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For our third panel, we had presentations on goloshes, trans-humanism and the sublime! #en6009 #textualities18 #MA

[Hannah Pratt @HannahP1194]

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