Ronan McDonald

Mock Mockers: Cynicism, Suffering, Irish Modernism

Ronan McDonald

Journal article  |  2021  |  CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY INQUIRY

Cynicism styles itself as the answer to the mental suffering produced by disillusionment, disappointment, and despair. It seeks to..

Irish Studies and its Discontents

Ronan McDonald

Book Chapter  |  2020

This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period and demonstrates the value of Irish con..

Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand

Dianne HALL, Ronan McDonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Irish University Review

This article gives an overview, and brief history, of Irish studies in Australia and New Zealand, within an academic context and b..

The Charisma of ‘The Second Coming’

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Journal article  |  2020  |  The Yearbook of English Studies

How do we explain literary success? Why do some authors, movements and literary works circulate around the world and others do not..

Introduction

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Book Chapter  |  2019

Books and the mass market: class, democracy and value

Ronan McDonald

Book Chapter  |  2019

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, auth..

Internal Others

Ronan McDonald

Book Chapter  |  2019

Internal others: Cultural debate and counter-revival

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Book Chapter  |  2019

Nietzsche's Crossings: Nihilism, Tragedy, Christianity

Ronan McDonald

Book Chapter  |  2019

The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the developm..

주제의 상실: 예이츠 시 속의 동물의 울음소리

Ronan McDonald

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Yeats Journal of Korea

Animal cries often signal crucial moments of transition in Yeats’s work, such as the cry of the stricken rabbit in his late poem “..