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The City's Hostile Bodies: Coriolanus's Rome and Carson's Belfast
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Nicholas Taylor-Collins
The Modern Language Review, Volume: 115, Issue: 1, Start page: 17
Swansea University Authors:
Nicholas Taylor-Collins , Nicholas Taylor-Collins
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DOI (Published version): 10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0017
Abstract
When change is articulated in literary cities as diverse as Coriolanus’ (1608) early republican Rome and Ciaran Carson’s Troubles Belfast in Belfast Confetti (1989), bodies become the agents of that change. These bodies-at-war induce stasis: a civil war in which the domestic is politicised and the p...
| Published in: | The Modern Language Review |
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| ISSN: | 0026-7937 |
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Modern Humanities Research Association
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48751 |
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When change is articulated in literary cities as diverse as Coriolanus’ (1608) early republican Rome and Ciaran Carson’s Troubles Belfast in Belfast Confetti (1989), bodies become the agents of that change. These bodies-at-war induce stasis: a civil war in which the domestic is politicised and the political domesticated. To resolve the violence at the heart of these evolving polities, these hostile bodies claim sovereignty over the city – whether Shakespeare’s plebeians or Coriolanus; Carson’s unionists or nationalists. Both texts employ the paradoxical logic of hospitality to resolve the antagonisms, realising the divided, yet fully-functioning cities in which hosts hospitably contest with other hosts, and in which bodies underpin the political (r)evolutions. |
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| Keywords: |
William Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus', Ciaran Carson, 'Belfast Confetti', body/bodies, Rome, Belfast, Troubles, stasis, hospitality |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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17 |