Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007

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John Wiley & Sons, 7 de nov. de 2013 - 288 páginas

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland’s most eminent writers.

  • This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irish novel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings of 11 seminal Irish novels
  • A timely and much needed text in a largely uncharted critical field
  • Provides detailed interpretations of individual novels by some of the country’s most critically celebrated writers, including Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Patrick McCabe, John McGahern, Edna O’Brien and Colm Tóibín
  • Investigates the ways in which Irish novels have sought to deal with and reflect a changing Ireland
  • The fruit of many years reading, teaching and research on the subject by a leading and highly respected academic in the field
 

Páginas selecionadas

Conteúdo

Roddy Doyles Barrytown Trilogy 19871991
23
John McGaherns Amongst Women 1990
51
Patrick McCabes The Butcher Boy 1992
75
Colm Tóibíns The Heather
105
William Trevors Felicias Journey 1994
127
Edna OBriens House of Splendid Isolation
151
Seamus Deanes Reading in the Dark 1996
173
Sebastian Barrys A Long Long Way 2005
197
Anne Enrights The Gathering
217
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Termos e frases comuns

Amongst Women Amongst Women 1990 Anne Enright Anne Enright’s Barry Barry’s Barrytown Trilogy Butcher Boy Butcher Boy 1992 Catholic Colm Tóibín Contemporary Irish Novel critical Dark Doyle’s Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy Dublin Eamon Edna O'Brien Edna O’Brien’s emotional Enright Enright’s The Gathering Faber father Felicia Felicia's Journey Felicia's Journey 1994 Field Day Fintan O'Toole Francie Francie’s Gathering 2007 Heather Blazing Heather Blazing 1992 Hilditch House of Splendid interview Irish culture Jimmy John McGahern John McGahern's Amongst Liam Harte literary London Long Long Malignant Shame McCabe’s The Butcher McGahern's Amongst Women McGreevy Minnie the Minx moral Moran mother Mourning Remains Unresolved narrative narrator narrator’s nation nationalist novelist Nugent O'Brien Patrick McCabe’s Politics of Pity postcolonial protagonists Roddy Doyle Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Seamus Deane Sebastian Sebastian Barry sense sexual social society Splendid Isolation 1994 story T´oibın tradition trauma Unbearable Proximities University Press Unstable Sands Veronica William Trevor William Trevor’s Felicia’s writing

Sobre o autor (2013)

Liam Harte is Senior Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature at the University of Manchester. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (2000; co-edited with Michael Parker), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2007; co-edited with Yvonne Whelan) and Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (2007). His The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001 (2009) was a Book of the Year in both the Times Literary Supplement and the Irish Independent, and appeared as a Palgrave Macmillan paperback in 2011.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloReading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007
Reading the Novel
AutorLiam Harte
EditoraJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN111850223X, 9781118502235
Num. págs.288 páginas
  
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