Wolff, English Instructor, Publishes Book and Essay


Ellen Wolff

Ellen M. Wolff, Eleanor Gwin Ellis Instructor in English, has recently published "An Anarchy in the Mind and the Heart": Narrating Anglo-Ireland (Bucknell University Press, 2006.) "This is a study of some of Anglo-Ireland's most compelling twentieth-century attempts at self-representation," states the publisher's abstract, including novels by Molly Keane, Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett. Such novels, Wolff argues, “challenge prevailing tribal myths and provide both the grounds and the terms for a revised theory of ideology and literature.”

Wolff has also published an essay in the book Molly Keane: centenary essays edited by Eibhear Walshe and Gwenda Young (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), a collection of essays drawn from an international conference on Keane's work, held at University College Cork in 2004.

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