'Useless passion': naturalism, existentialism and Christianity in The barracks
Mining the self: The dark
Quoting modernism in the short stories: Joyce, Yeats, Chekhov and Beckett
Psychoanalytical signification and the remnants of literature: The Leavetaking
'Low' modernism: The pornographer
Yeats, Nietzsche, theatricality and will in Amongst Women
'Careful neutrality': education and reticence in 'Strandhill, the sea', 'Hearts of oak, bellies of brass' and 'High ground'
'The old pieties': modernity and 'The country funeral'
Habit, memory and yime: 'A sip-up', 'The wine breath', 'All sorts of impossible things' and 'Gold watch'
'Everything that had flowered had now come to fruit': modernist time and That they may face the rising sun.