Adrian Paterson

Adrian Paterson taught at Oxford and now spends his time near mountains in Galway researching and writing on Modernism and Irish literature. Along with anything else that comes to mind.

Selected Publications

‘After Music: Chamber Music and the Blank Page’. The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered. ed. Marc Connor. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.

‘Frank O’Connor’. British Writers Supplement Vol. XIV. ed Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008.

‘James Clarence Mangan’. British Writers Supplement Vol.XIII, ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007.

‘An Imagined Music: W.B.Yeats, Music, and the Irish Tradition’. The Current Debate About the Irish Literary Canon: Essays Reassessing the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. ed. Helen Thompson. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Forthcoming

Monograph: Words for Music Perhaps: W.B.Yeats and Musical Sense. 2010. Monograph study recommended by the Oxford English Monographs committee to Oxford University Press.

‘The Curlew and the Abbey: Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats’. Proceedings of the Third Annual Irish Studies Conference. Bath Spa, ed. Brian Griffin. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

‘Dear Harp of My Country: Moore’s Melodies and the Language of Music’. Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and the Scenes of Cultural Production. ed. Jim Kelly. London: Macmillan, 2010.

‘Not of one bird but of many: Musical Notation in Modernist Poetry’. Modernism and Music. ed. Katherine O’Callaghan & Katie Brown. 2010.

‘I know a bloody poet when I hear one: Flann O’Brien’s Dialogic Imagination’. Celebrating Flann O’Brien. ed. Jennika Pierie. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010.

‘On the Pavements Grey’: Yeats, Morris, and the Suburban Paradise’.  The Other Capital: Irish Writing London. ed. Tom Herron. 2010.

‘The Sounds of Words: Yeats and Partch, Synge and Vaughan Williams’. Modernism and Opera, ed. Richard Begum.  Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

‘Don Paterson’, British Writers Supplement Vol. XVI, ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2010.

Selected Reviews

‘James Joyce’s Painful Case, by Coilin Owens’. Irish Studies Review. Vol. 17, No.2: June 2009.

‘Reading Joyce, by David Pierce’. Irish Studies Review. Vol. 17, No.3: Sep 2009.

‘The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts, by Ronald Schuhard’. Notes and Queries. Vol. 56, No. 3: Sep 2009.

Adrian Paterson, M.A. (Oxon), MPhil (Dublin), DPhil (Oxon), is a Research Fellow for the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Moore Institute in the National University of Ireland, Galway.