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The City's Hostile Bodies: Coriolanus's Rome and Carson's Belfast

Nicholas Taylor-Collins Orcid Logo, Nicholas Taylor-Collins Orcid Logo

The Modern Language Review, Volume: 115, Issue: 1, Start page: 17

Swansea University Authors: Nicholas Taylor-Collins Orcid Logo, Nicholas Taylor-Collins Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0017

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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 p...

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ISSN: 0026-7937
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2020
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