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The Belfast poet Sinéad Morrissey has written some well-known travel poems. In Through the Square Window (2009), however, the birth of her son Augustine causes a paradigm shift and keeps her at home, in Belfast. Yet, the work does not deal with the place Belfast and or the Troubles and its aftermath as her first volume There was Fire in Vancouver (1996) largely did. The city of Belfast has become the background of the poet's life and poetry and it seldom figures as a subject in the poems. This article does not look at objective, stable place, but explores Morrissey's experience and use of the unstable space. The basis of this article lies in phenomenological theories of space. Very important is Michelde Certeau's theory of space and place, which is built on definitions offered by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His anthropological space is the 'space' talked about in this article. Space, based on theirtheories, is always unique, depending on the context and the speaker. Merleau-Ponty includes livedspace which can both expand and contract in the experience of space. Gaston Bachelard, who is themost important source for this article, mostly focuses on the more constricted space of the house. InThe Poetics of Space he discusses the human value of intimacy which the house is imbued with. Thishuman value increases when the house becomes a shelter from outside threats. The body, forexample, becomes a waiting-house, a shelter for the child. This initial movement of containment, iscontrasted with the realization that the boy will one dav find his own way. Her pregnancy, the birthof her son Augustine and motherhood bring along changes in Morrissey's thoughts and feelings, aswell as in her space. The aim of this article is to show how space is an important subject and tool in Morrissey's volume.

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A Confederacy of Dunces (Nederlands: Een samenzwering van idioten) van John Kennedy Toole wordt vaak bestudeerd met een speciale interesse in New Orleans, de stad waar het verhaal zich afspeelt. Ondanks dat het boek deel uitmaakt van ‘Southern literature’ zijn er relatief weinig studies met deze benadering. Dit artikel wil de aanzet zijn tot een verandering. De focus ligt op drie elementen die typisch zijn voor ‘Southern literature’, namelijk de rol van familie, de tegenstellingen tussen het zuiden en het noorden en de functie van religie. De functie en rol van deze drie thema’s worden geanalyseerd in A Confederacy of Dunces. Aan het begin van elk hoofdstuk wordt elk thema kort geïntroduceerd. Deze introductie houdt in dat er een overzicht wordt gegeven op welke manier en in welke werken het thema al eerder aan bod is gekomen in ‘Southern literature’.

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