SALIS

Research Interests:

Contemporary English-language literature. The fiction of Richard Ford. The prose and drama of Samuel Beckett. The fiction of John Updike. Narrative and identity.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Brian Duffy. 2012. 'Motifs of Loss in The Afterlife'. The John Updike Review, 2, 1, pp31-49.
• Brian Duffy. 2012. 'Loss of Trust as Disconnection in John Updike's Trust Me.'. Revue Electronique D Etudes Sure Le Monde Anglophone, 9, 2
• Brian Duffy. 2010. `Journey to the Desert and Other Motifs in Albert Camus¿s "La femme adultère" and Richard Ford¿s "Abyss"¿. Revue De Litterature Comparee, 2, pp77-90.
• Brian Duffy. 2006. The Story as Cure in Richard Ford's 'Occidentals'. The Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal Of Southern Cultures, 59, 2, pp225-241.
• Brian Duffy. 2003. `Banville¿s Other Ghost: Samuel Beckett¿s Presence in John Banville¿s Eclipse¿. Etudes Irlandaises, 28, 1, pp85-106.
• Brian Duffy. 2001. `The Patient Ant and the Foolish Grasshopper: John Updike¿s Elaboration on La Fontaine¿. Symposium, 55, 2, pp59-77.
• Brian Duffy. 1999. `Narrative and Identity in Samuel Beckett¿s L¿Innommable¿. Etudes Irlandaises, 24, 1, pp63-77.
• Brian Duffy. 1998. `The Prisoners in the Cave and Worm in the Pit: Plato and Beckett on Authority and Truth¿. Journal Of Beckett Studies, 8, 1, pp51-71.
• Brian Duffy. 1996. `Malone meurt: The Comfort of Narrative¿. Journal Of Beckett Studies, 6, 1, pp25-47.
• Brian Duffy. 1994. `Notes sur l¿identité et la causalité dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau¿. French Studies Bulletin, 50, , pp8-11.

Selected Books

• Brian Duffy. Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford, Rodopi, pp368., 2008.

Selected Chapters

• Brian Duffy. 2010. Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism in Richard Ford's 'Occidentals'. The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations, pp71-87.
• Brian Duffy. 2009. Sex, Morality, and Adultery Old and New in Richard Ford's "Abyss". L'Amérique d'Est en Ouest, pp95-104.
• Brian Duffy. 2009. From a Good Firm Knot to a Mess of Loose Ends: Identity and Solution in Martin Amis¿ Night Train. Investigating Identities. Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction, pp311-324.
• Brian Duffy. 1998. `Molloy: As the story was told. Or not.'. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 7, pp177-193.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Brian Duffy. 2008. 'In the Beginning, in the End: Notes on Framing and Narrative in Richard Ford's "A Multitude of Sins"'. Conference paper published online.,
• Brian Duffy. 2007. 'Infidelity, Identity and Morality in Richard Ford's "A Multitude of Sins"'. Conference paper published online.,

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• Brian Duffy, , The John Updike Society Second Biennial Conference. Paper delivered: "John Updike's narrative 'secrets': hidden ekphrasis in 'Made in Heaven'", 12-JUN-12 - 16-JUN-12, Boston, USA
• Brian Duffy, , The First Biennial John Updike Society Conference. Paper delivered: 'Motifs, structure, and themes in narratives of loss in The Afterlife and Other Stories.', 01-OCT-10 - 03-OCT-10, Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
• Brian Duffy, , Symposium on Richard Ford. Paper delivered: "The treatment of sex and adultery in Richard Ford's 'Abyss'"., 10-JAN-09 - 10-JAN-09, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France
• Brian Duffy, , "Imaginaires Américains; Steinbeck et Ford". Paper delivered: "In the beginning, in the end: framing and narrative in Richard Ford's A Multitude of Sins"., 25-JAN-08 - 25-JAN-08, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France
• Brian Duffy, , Symposium on Richard Ford. Paper delivered: 'Infidelity, Identity and Morality in A Multitude of Sins', 23-NOV-07 - 23-NOV-07, Rennes 2 University, France
• Brian Duffy, `Cosmopolitanism Contested in Richard Ford¿s ¿Occidentals¿¿., The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond. Paper delivered: 'Cosmopolitanism contested in Richard Ford's "Occidentals"'., 11-NOV-05 - 12-NOV-05, NUI, Cork, Ireland