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Contents from the Frontiers of Writing: Pol/Ir/Ish Intertexts Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 5 (2015), pp. 7-8 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-16323 Indice / Contents Ringraziamenti / Acknowledgements 9 From the Frontiers of Writing: Pol/Ir/ish Intertexts edited by Fiorenzo Fantaccini, Luigi Marinelli Introduction 13 Fiorenzo Fantaccini, Luigi Marinelli The Politics of Comparison: Romance at the Edges of Europe 19 Katarzyna Bartoszyńska The Era of Tadeusz Pawlikowsi and Irish Theatre 37 Barry Keane Visions and Revisions: Seamus Heaney, ‘Foreign’ Poetry, and The Problem of Assimilation 49 Magdalena Kay “Secure the Bastion of Sensation”: Seamus Heaney’s and Czesław Miłosz’s Poetry of the Everyday 65 Tomasz Bilczweski Wicked Female Characters in Roddy Doyle’s “The Pram”: Revisiting Celtic and Polish Myths in the Context of Twenty-First Century Ireland 85 Burcu Gülüm Tekin Irish Language Teaching in Poland: A Reflection 97 Danielle McCormack Irish-Polish Cultural Interrelations in Practice: Interviews with Chris Binchy, Piotr Czerwiński, Dermot Bolger, and Anna Wolf 103 Joanna Kosmalska, Joanna Rostek ISSN 2239-3978 (online) http://www.fupress.com/bsfm-sijis 2015 Firenze University Press 8 indice / contents Jan Parandowski 131 Jan Parandowski and James Joyce 133 Fiorenzo Fantaccini Meeting with Joyce 135 Jan Parandowski Miscellanea Reclaiming the Body and the Spirit in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé 145 David Cregan Exchange Place by Ciaran Carson or a sense of déjà vu 157 Elisabeth Delattre The Politics of Catholic versus Protestant and Understandings of Personal Affairs in Restoration Ireland 171 Danielle McCormack The Lie of the Land: Irish Modernism in a Nativist Ireland 183 Shahriyar Mansouri Writings Water and its (Dis)Contents 209 William Wall Voices Mary Dorcey: The Poet’s Gaze and Scalpel 225 Maria Micaela Coppola Five Poems and a Short Story 237 Mary Dorcey Libri ricevuti / Books Received 253 Recensioni / Reviews 255 Autori / Contributors 273.
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