Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8156-3435-5
Verlag: Syracuse University Press
Because Irish culture was largely dictated by the Catholic Church and its conservatism, the most ambitious Irish writers, like Joyce, Beckett, and the ten others Brivic presents here, saw the privileges of damnation and seized them, rejecting powerful norms of church, state, and culture, as well as of literary form, voice, and character, to produce some of the most radical work of the twentieth century. Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O’Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou. His mathematical procedure for distinguishing what is truly innovative informs the progressive political and philosophical thrust that these writers at their best carry on from Joyceand Beckett to unfold a fierce tradition that extends into the twenty-first century.