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The Contemporary Irish Novel

By Linden Peach

The Contemporary Irish Novel Contemporary literature

The Contemporary Irish Novel

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This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers. The novels examined include works by John Banville, Jennifer Johnston, Roddy Doyle, Emma Donoghue, Seamus Deane, William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Joseph O'Connor, Patrick McCabe, Mary Morrissy, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. The Contemporary Irish Novel addresses themes such as ghosts and haunting, mimicry, obedience and subversion, the relocation and reinscription of identity, the mother figure, parent-child relations, madness, masculinity, self-harm, sexuality, domestic violence, fetishism and postmodernity. Drawing on a range of critical approaches including postcolonial, gender and psychoanalytic theory, Peach explores and celebrates the diversity of Irish fiction and suggests that the boundary between literature and theory is as permeable as that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2003-10-21
Publication Date:
2004-01-03
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0333948939
ISBN13:
9780333948934
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
382 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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