Beyond Ireland

Contents: Charles I. Armstrong: Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves: Pursuing the 'Japanese Effect' in Irish Poetry - Billy Gray: 'Less like marching, more like meditation': Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur - Åke Persson: Recalibrating the Mind: Globalization, Viticulture, Wine-Tasting and Change in Kate O'Riordan's The Memory Stones - Carmen Zamorano Llena: Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland - Róisín Keys: 'Why is a gramophone like a parrot?': Intermediality and (Inter)cultural Identity in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa - Anne Karhio: 'Immram', 'Haggadah' and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in Paul Muldoon's Poetry - Martin Shaw: Warning Signs and Reflexivity in Nan Joyce's Anti-Traveller Protest Story - Lene Yding Pedersen: Cultural Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Colum McCann's Zoli - Ruben Moi: 'Drawn by the colour and light': Ekphrases and Aesthetics in the Poetics of Derek Mahon - Gerald Porter: Distant Transformations: The Shifting Topologies of a Diaspora Song - Joakim Wrethed: 'Horribly pleasurable transgression': Metaphor, Theology and Evil in John Banville's The Book of Evidence - Hedda Friberg-Harnesk: Encounters Across Borders in a European Arena: John Banville's Kepler and Carl-Henning Wijkmark's Dacapo - Britta Olinder: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Clashes in John Hewitt's Work - Anders Olsson: Walk the Line: Experience and Interpretation in Colm Tóibín's Bad Blood - Ronald Paul: Frederick Engels and the International Significance of Irish History.

Hedda Friberg-Harnesk is Associate Professor at Mid Sweden University, Härnösand. Within the field of Irish Studies, her primary research interest is the fiction of John Banville.
Gerald Porter is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Vaasa, Finland. His main field of interest is in the mediation of vernacular song, and he has also published on constructions of national identity and on literary representations of social disorder.
Joakim Wrethed is Visiting Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. His main fields of research are Irish Studies, phenomenology, aesthetics and metaphor theory.