Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1.1 Preliminary considerations
	1.2 Using corpus studies in the analysis of literary texts
	1.3 “Identity” as a multifaceted concept
	1.4 Terminology
	1.5 Organisation of this book
	References
Chapter 2 Irish identity, language, and masculinity
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Language as a gendered performance
	2.3 Language in fiction
		2.3.1 Irish English in fiction
	2.4 Irish masculinity
		2.4.1 Heroes, lads, father figures, and other models of masculinity in Ireland
		2.4.2 Irish masculinity in fiction
	2.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary methodologies for literary studies
	3.1 Introduction: Corpus linguistics and digital humanities
	3.2 Corpus stylistics
	3.3 Merging discourse analysis and corpus studies
	3.4 Corpus-based vs corpus-driven
	3.5 Characterisation
	3.6 The case of terms of address, speech acts, and body language
	3.7 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4 The Corpus of Male Irish Writers
	4.1 Introduction: Preliminary questions when building a corpus
	4.2 The creation of a corpus
	4.3 The Corpus of Male Irish Writers (CMIW)
	4.4 A brief insight into the novels of the CMIW
		4.4.1 Characters against the world
		4.4.2 Characters against each other
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5 Introduction to corpus analysis and initial results
	5.1 Brief insight into Sketch Engine’s interface
		5.1.1 Wordlists and keywords
		5.1.2 N-grams
		5.1.3 Word sketches
		5.1.4 Concordance: basic and advanced (CQL)
	5.2 Initial results
		5.2.1 Word sketches of hero, man, and lad
		5.2.2 Collocates of like a man
	5.3 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6 Male vocatives and male hierarchy
	6.1 Terms of address and functions of vocatives
	6.2 Proper names (Mr Bell)
	6.3 Nicknames (Charlie boy, wee Francy)
	6.4 Male nouns (Father, Dad, Da)
	6.5 Insults amongst male characters
	6.6 Endearments
	6.7 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7 Adverbs and verbs of speech to imply domination
	7.1 Taxonomy of verbs of speech
		7.1.1 The dominance model
	7.2 Queries carried out regarding verbs of speech
	7.3 He + verbs of speech + adverb: He said aggressively
	7.4 I + verb of speech + adverb: I said faintly
	7.5 You + verb of speech + adverb: You smiled cruelly
	7.6 Proper names + verb of speech + adverb: Ruttledge said quietly
	7.7 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8 Body language, hypermasculinity, and other models of masculinity
	8.1 Introduction: Body language and masculinity
	8.2 Verbs of movement
	8.3 Parts of the body and masculinity
		8.3.1 Eye(s)
		8.3.2 Hand(s)
		8.3.3 Shoulder
		8.3.4 Arm(s)
		8.3.5 Head
	8.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9 Conclusion
	9.1 The research in this book
	9.2 Contribution to the field of literary and linguistic research
	9.3 Indexicality and Irish masculinities
	9.4 Concluding remarks and future lines of investigation
	Reference
Index