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Rogers Writers’ Trust winner Emma Donoghue’s top five summer reads - Chatelaine

Rogers Writers’ Trust winner Emma Donoghue’s top five summer reads - Chatelaine | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Award-winning author Emma Donoghue of The Room and Astray offers up a tempting selection of books to take on vacation.
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July 21, 2012 2:14 PM
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International Irish literature conference comes to Canada for first time

International Irish literature conference comes to Canada for first time | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Concordia's School of Canadian Irish Studies welcomes more than 150 delegates.

 

A global array of scholars with a keen interest in the history and culture of Ireland will descend on Montreal for a five-day conference at Concordia University beginning Monday, July 30.

The International Association of the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) is holding its 36th annual conference in Montreal for the very first time as a result of Concordia’s offer to host the event.

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The Real Imaginary: Lacan's Joyce | berfrois

The Real Imaginary: Lacan's Joyce | berfrois | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
In his twenty-third seminar, Jacques Lacan framed the sinthome as a radical unknotting of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real. He offered le sinthome not as a mere technical addition to the battery of psychoanalytic tools, but as a concept of paramount importance, for its unique adequation to what he found to be a significant change in the conventional relation of subject to culture and of ego to other. [1] The sinthome denoted for Lacan a new way that the subject could confront the challenge posed by the rancid politics of our time
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