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Dr Richard Robinson

Athro Cyswllt, English Literature

+44 (0) 1792 602796

r.p.robinson@abertawe.ac.uk

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-1931

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Mae Dr Richard Robinson yn Athro Cyswllt yn yr Adran Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol. Ei faes yw llenyddiaeth yr 20fed ganrif a llenyddiaeth gyfoes, gyda diddordeb arbennig mewn moderniaeth a’i dylanwad, Astudiaethau Gwyddelig, astudiaethau ffiniau (yn benodol, argraffiadau o Ganol Ewrop), ac agweddau ar ffilm a ffuglen Eidalaidd. Mae’n awdur dau fonograff, Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere (Palgrave, 2007) a John McGahern and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2017). Mae wedi cyhoeddi’n eang ar awduron fel Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Rebecca West a John McGahern, ac mae wrthi’n datblygu prosiect cydweithredol ar arddull, o’i ystyried yn gysyniad mewn beirniadaeth lenyddol, theori ac athroniaeth. Ar hyn o bryd mae’n cyd-olygu rhifyn arbennig o Textual Practice (gyda Dr Barry Sheils ar y pwnc ‘The Contemporary Problem of Style’, lle mae’n ystyried croestoriad arddull a thafodiaith yng ngwaith Elena Ferrante. Mae Richard wedi goruchwylio cwblhad nifer o raddau doethuriaeth, ac mae’n croesawu prosiectau pellach yn y meysydd arbenigol uchod. Ef oedd Cyfarwyddwr Rhaglen yr Adran yn ddiweddar ac mae wedi bod yn Swyddog Arholiadau a Swyddog Derbyn.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Ysgrifennu Modern a Chyfoes yn Saesneg, gan gynnwys Kazuo Ishiguro
Astudiaethau Gwyddelig, gan gynnwys James Joyce a John McGahern
Astudiaethau ffiniau, gyda diddordeb arbennig mewn argraffiadau o Ganol Ewrop
Theorïau arddull
Llenyddiaeth Eidalai

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Ymchwil

John McGahern and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2017)

Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere (Palgrave, 2007)

Erthyglau cyfnodolion a thraethodau llyfrau:

‘“Not Even a Shadow of Violence”: Undead History in John McGahern’s Anglo-Irish Stories’, yn Assessing a Literary Legacy: Essays on John McGahern, gol. Eamon Maher a Derek Hand (Cork: Cork University Press, 2019)

‘The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels’, cyd-awdur gyda Barry Sheils, Textual Practice 29:6 (2015) 1-22

‘An Umbrella, a Pair of Boots and a “Spacious Nothing”: McGahern a Beckett’, yn Irish University Review, Cyfrol 44: 2 (Hydref/Gaeaf 2014) 323-40

‘That Dubious Enterprise, the Irish Short Story: Dubliners and The Untilled Field’, yn James Joyce and the Nineteenth Century, gol. John Nash (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

‘The Modernism of Ian McEwan’s Atonement’, Modern Fiction Studies, 56:3 (Hydref 2010) 473-95

‘“The Dangerous Edge of Things”: Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War fiction’, yn Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War, gol. Petra Rau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), tud. 185-204

‘“To Give a Name, Is that Still to Give?” Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled’, yn Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Kazuo Ishiguro, gol. Sean Matthews a Sebastian Groes (Continuum, 2009), tud. 67-78

‘Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and Central Europe’, yn Critical Quarterly, 48:4 (2006) 107-30

‘Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space’, yn Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings, gol. Sebastian D.G. Knowles, Geert Lernout a John McCourt (University Press of Florida, 2007), tud. 170-87

‘From Border to Front: Italo Svevo’s La Coscienza di Zeno and International Space’, yn Journal of European Studies, 36:3 (2006) 243-68

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Robinson, R. (2023). “Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?. English Studies, 103(7), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2150941, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61930
Robinson, R. (2022). A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy. Textual Practice, 36(4), 582-604.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030514, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59154
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2022). The contemporary problem of style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59153
Robinson, R. (2016). John McGahern and Modernism (1st. ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544117, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30108
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/john-mcgahern-and-modernism-9781441125781
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2015). The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Textual Practice, 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1059030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22013

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Robinson, R. (2023). “Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?. English Studies, 103(7), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2150941, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61930
Robinson, R. (2022). A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy. Textual Practice, 36(4), 582-604.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030514, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59154
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2022). The contemporary problem of style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59153
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2015). The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Textual Practice, 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1059030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22013
Robinson, R. (2014). An Umbrella, a Pair of Boots, and a 'Spacious Nothing': McGahern and Beckett. Irish University Review, 44(2), 323-340.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30563
Robinson, R. (2010). The Modernism of Ian McEwan’s 'Atonement'. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 56(3), 473-495.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2010.0015, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11458
Robinson, R. (2006). Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro’s 'The Unconsoled' and Central Europe. Critical Quarterly, 48(4), 107-130.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30593
Robinson, R. (2006). From Border to Front: Italo Svevo's 'La Coscienza di Zeno' and International Space. Journal of European Studies, 36(3), 243-268.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30594

Llyfrau Awdurol

Robinson, R. (2016). John McGahern and Modernism (1st. ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544117, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30108
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/john-mcgahern-and-modernism-9781441125781
Robinson, R. (2007). Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere Palgrave Macmillan.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa357

Penodau Llyfrau

Robinson, R. (2019). 'Not Even a Shadow of Violence': Undead History in John McGahern's Anglo-Irish Short Stories. Assessing a Literary Legacy: Essays on John McGahern (pp. 28-44). Cork University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36095
Robinson, R. (2013). ‘That Dubious Enterprise, the Irish Short Story’: The Untilled Field and Dubliners. James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (pp. 46-60). Cambridge University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11189
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/james-joyce-nineteenth-century
Robinson, R. (2010). 'The Dangerous Edge of Things': Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War fiction. Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War (pp. 185-204). Palgrave Macmillan
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11457
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=364057
Robinson, R. (2009). 'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (pp. 67-78). Continuum
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11459
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kazuo-ishiguro-9780826497246/
Robinson, R. (2007). ‘Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space’ in Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings. (pp. 1University Press of Florida
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa361

Goruchwyliaeth

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PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Alan Bilton
Other traces of Italy: Giacomo Leopardi and James Joyce’s works. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Roberta Magnani
A novel of the women's revolution. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Francesca Rhydderch
Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Daniel Williams
The philosophy of totalitarianism in twentieth-century literature. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Daniel Williams
Iris Murdoch, Elias Canetti and Sadomasochism (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Julian Preece
Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Rachel Farebrother

Modiwlau a Addysgir

EN-120 English Essentials

This is a skills-based module which will equip students with the technical and critical expertise that is necessary for their academic journey in English Literature and Creative Writing. It is designed to support the transition from post-16 study to undergraduate study and to show students *how* to become successful scholars of English. How should we read texts? How do we write essays? Focusing on an exciting anthology of texts selected by the English academics at Swansea, this team-taught module uncovers the power of written language. We will explore how writers inspire and challenge their readers, how to think critically, how to close-read, how to construct powerful arguments and how to produce written work that is rigorous, academic and convincing. This module empowers students to think, write, and persuade.
EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

Literature prompts debate, and speaks to us differently depending on the questions that we ask of it. This course looks at how our understanding of meaning in literature changes when we think about critical debates concerning the role of history, language and subjectivity in texts. We take three very different texts from different periods, and look at the ways in which the texts (and debates around them) raise questions of history, language and subjectivity, and how the texts comment on these issues. We begin with a classic of 19th century realism, Charles Dickens's HARD TIMES (1854), move on to the groundbreaking work of modernist experiment, Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY (1925), and end with a powerful example of postmodern representation, Toni Morrison's BELOVED (1987). The course will be taught by a formal lecture followed by a discussion forum, in which short passages of literary and theoretical text will be read and debated in the lecture theatre.
EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

An introduction to Modernist literature, focussing upon its origins in response to the crisis of modernity, its engagement with colonialism and the First World War, its formal experimentation, its depiction of city-life and its engagement with new ideas of gender and the unconscious.
EN-241 Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain

The nationality question has been a persistent theme in British politics, most obviously in recent decades in relationship to questions of immigration and settlement, Britain¿s membership of Europe, the `troubles¿ and `peace process¿ in Ulster, and the resurgence of forms of devolution and nationalism in Wales and Scotland. This course explores the ways in which the diverse literatures of the British Isles have responded to, and shaped, debates around these issues. The questions asked on the course will include: How does a `four nations¿ approach, well-established in historical studies, function in literary studies? What are the key differences and similarities between the literatures produced in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales? To what extent does literature reflect social identities, and to what extent is it active in their creation? If all identities are in as sense `imagined¿, why have certain kinds of identities been significant in particular periods? Is an aesthetics informed by nationalism inevitably conservative and restrictive? Are linguistically experimental writers always skeptical of collective identities? Are we witnessing the `break up¿ of Britain in contemporary literature, or is Britishness being reconstructed anew?
EN-3031 Dissertation - English Literature

The Dissertation is an optional, two-semester, 40-credit module designed to develop high-level academic skills and intellectual independence in the students. A first-semester skills-building programme will include: research skills, summary skills, bibliographic skills, ability to synthesise succinctly, planning and organisational skills, correct presentation of a thesis and bibliography, presentational skills and public speaking. Students conduct research on a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of the English literature staff. The topic will be devised to fall within staff research and teaching specialisms, broadly defined. Students attend group sessions on research skills in Semesters 1 and 2, and have individual meetings with supervisors in Semester 2.
EN-3060 Philosophy and Literature

Much significant literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century dramatizes ethical and metaphysical questions that are central to the study of philosophy. Plays, novels and poems by writers such as Arthur Schnitzler, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera and Ingeborg Bachmann enhance our understanding of ethical plights, moral choices, questions of loyalty, affiliation and commitment, the relationship between art, science, political power and freedom, as well as between self and other, language and gender. Literature makes manifest universal philosophical questions. Nevertheless, these texts are marked by the particular disfigurements of twentieth-century history, and our approach will also reveal how these representations of historical trauma, political oppression and social alienation speak of the immediacy and relevance of both philosophical enquiry and literary interpretation.
EN-M31 Dissertation

Individual project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student.
EN-M41 Research Practice in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

Supervised project on research methodology in practice. Students build a detailed bibliographical plan for their MA dissertation project.
EN-M69 James Joyce and Literary Theory

This module is centred on the detailed study of the magnus opus of the Anglophone modernist novel, James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). We begin by considering the relationship between late nineteenth century naturalism (in fiction and drama) and symbolism ( in poetry) and how these aesthetic tensions informed Joyce's early development into what we now call a modernist writer. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man introduces us to Stephen Dedalus as he formulates his theories of language and art: this is an ironic Bildungsroman of a writer not yet capable of composing Ulysses. Our study of Ulysses concentrates on individual chapters, or pairs of chapters, which are tied to modernist thematics. We discuss the following:the transformation of the supposedly omniscient narrative voice into that of the impersonal "Arranger" of the artwork; the mind of Stephen and the body of Bloom, or soul and matter; debates between Irish cultural nationalism (voiced by the Citizen) and utopian cosmopolitanism (voiced by Bloom, a Jewish Irishman); a parody of the history of English letters and of rationalist encyclopaedism; Molly's interior life, and how mimetically it is rendered. As an aftertaste, we then scrutinise an excerpt- a mere twenty six pages - of Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "Shem the Penman" is, by now a late modernist portrait of the exiled artist. We conclude by tracing Joyce's critical reputation ( not always as secure as it is now0 in Ireland, the United States and Britain, and touch on ways in which signs of Joycean textuality are to be found in more recent fiction.
EN-M80 Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

This module is designed to introduce you to key practical and conceptual tools necessary for scholarship at Master¿s level and beyond. The aim is for you to gain the competencies and confidence to complete and enjoy the degree. In a seminar and occasional workshop format, you will practise a range of core professional research skills. You will be encouraged to reflect on your own learning and academic development to become a more independent and self-directed lifelong learner. You will produce a Portfolio of assessed work. These activities will support your work in other MA modules, particularly EN-M41 Research Practice and your EN-M31 Dissertation, while also equipping you with a set of transferable skills that are highly valued by many employers.

Hanes Gyrfa

Darlithydd, Uwch Ddarlithydd, Athro Cyswllt , Prifysgol Abertawe

Medi 2007 - Presennol

Dr Richard Robinson

Rhif ffôn

Cyfeiriad ebost

Welsh language proficiency

Dolenni Ymchwil

Trosolwg

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Llyfrau Awdurol

Penodau Llyfrau

Goruchwyliaeth

Untitled (cyfredol)

Other traces of Italy: Giacomo Leopardi and James Joyce’s works. (cyfredol)

A novel of the women's revolution. (cyfredol)

Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

The philosophy of totalitarianism in twentieth-century literature. (cyfredol)

Iris Murdoch, Elias Canetti and Sadomasochism (cyfredol)

Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

Modiwlau a Addysgir

EN-120 English Essentials

EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

EN-241 Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain

EN-3031 Dissertation - English Literature

EN-3060 Philosophy and Literature

EN-M31 Dissertation

EN-M41 Research Practice in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

EN-M69 James Joyce and Literary Theory

EN-M80 Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

Hanes Gyrfa

Darlithydd, Uwch Ddarlithydd, Athro Cyswllt , Prifysgol Abertawe