The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach modernist by closely examining style Mike McCormack’s one-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016). I argue that responds to economic crash 2008 performing a kin...

Since the time of the Renaissance, the predominant metaphor for science has been the machine. Normal science is based on logical positivism—the belief that there is a single universal condition that can be validated and which accumulates with time building on what has gone before.1 With the application of science to medicine —‘the paradigm of certainty’—the modern world had arrived. With it cam...

This paper explores some similarities between Feminism, especially intersectionality theory, Post-colonial studies, and Participatory Alternative Development. While the three fields deal with different subject matters they have commonalities such as methodology, historical development, and activism. The three fields have as their goal, not only the accumulation of knowledge but also to strive f...