Harte Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-50223-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Reading the Novel

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 isthe authoritative guide to some of the most inventive andchallenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years.Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations ofnovels by some of Ireland's most eminent writers.

* This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irishnovel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings of 11 seminalIrish novels

* A timely and much needed text in a largely uncharted criticalfield

* Provides detailed interpretations of individual novels by someof the country's most critically celebrated writers,including Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, PatrickMcCabe, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien and ColmTóibín

* Investigates the ways in which Irish novels have sought to dealwith and reflect a changing Ireland

* The fruit of many years reading, teaching and research on thesubject by a leading and highly respected academic in thefield

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harte, Liam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel1987-2007 1
1 In the FamilyWay: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy(1987-1991) 23
2 House Arrest: John McGahern's Amongst Women (1990)51
3 Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992)75
4 Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm T´oib´yn's The Heather Blazing (1992) 105
5 Unbearable Proximities:William Trevor's Felicia'sJourney (1994) 127
6 History's Hostages: Edna O'Brien's House ofSplendid Isolation (1994) 151
7 Shadows in the Air: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark(1996) 173
8 The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way(2005) 197
9 Mourning Remains Unresolved: Anne Enright's TheGathering (2007) 217
Bibliography 243
Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Liam Harte is Senior Lecturer in Irish and ModernLiterature at the University of Manchester. He is the author oreditor of seven books, including Contemporary Irish Fiction:Themes, Tropes, Theories (2000; co-edited with Michael Parker),Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in theTwenty-First Century (2007; co-edited with Yvonne Whelan) andModern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (2007).His The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography andMemoir, 1725-2001 (2009) was a Book of the Year in boththe Times Literary Supplement and the IrishIndependent, and appeared as a Palgrave Macmillan paperback in2011.