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Jun 15, 2023

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Literature & Theatre

A collection of my writings on literary and theatrical topics

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Falling in Love with a 100 Year Old Gay Love Story

How E.M. Forster’s “Maurice” Changed Me

Mar 26, 2021

Falling in Love with a 100 Year Old Gay Love Story

Mar 26, 2021

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Alan Corley

The Changing Concept of Folklore

From the 18th Century to Modern Times

Aug 17, 2020

The Changing Concept of Folklore

Aug 17, 2020

Alan Corley

Charlotte Brooke: Mother of Modern Folklore Studies

In the dedication page of Gods and Fighting Men, Lady Gregory writes: “We would not give up our own country — Ireland — if we were to get…

Aug 14, 2020

Charlotte Brooke: Mother of Modern Folklore Studies

Aug 14, 2020

Alan Corley

Division within the community and the self in the work of Yeats and Heaney

Ever since the arrival of the first Norman knights in the 12th century, the island of Ireland has seen a substantial amount of conflict…

Aug 21, 2020

Division within the community and the self in the work of Yeats and Heaney

Aug 21, 2020

Alan Corley

Leavings, returns, and arrivals in contemporary Irish fiction.

Leavings and returns occupy a large place within the Irish psyche, and by extension, creative works by Irish creators. As a country that…

Aug 28, 2020

Leavings, returns, and arrivals in contemporary Irish fiction.

Aug 28, 2020

Alan Corley

“Dinosaurs on Other Planets” Review

The final paragraph of the titular story of this collection includes the following two sentences: “Putting down the bucket, she gazed up at…

Aug 31, 2020

“Dinosaurs on Other Planets” Review

Aug 31, 2020

Alan Corley

The importance of space in the avant-garde theatre of Castellucci and Cunningham

Avant-garde in its noun form refers to “an intelligentsia that develops new or experimental concepts especially in the arts.”¹ And…

Sep 4, 2020

The importance of space in the avant-garde theatre of Castellucci and Cunningham

Sep 4, 2020

Alan Corley

Memory and Loss: MAMAFESTA MEMORIALISING

A Review and Analysis

Sep 7, 2020

Memory and Loss: MAMAFESTA MEMORIALISING

Sep 7, 2020

Alan Corley

The “Real” and the “Mythological” in Early Irish Theatre

John Millington Synge once said that he did “not believe in the possibility of ‘a purely fantastic, unmodern, ideal, breezy, spring-dayish…

Mar 8, 2021

The “Real” and the “Mythological” in Early Irish Theatre

Mar 8, 2021

Alan Corley

Queer Issues through Camp: “Drag Queens on Trial” and “Paris is Burning”

[Camp] is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed, the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice…

Aug 12, 2020

Queer Issues through Camp: “Drag Queens on Trial” and “Paris is Burning”

Aug 12, 2020

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