The contemporary Irish novel : critical readings /: critical readings. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Linden Peach.
• Other Names: Peach, Linden, 1951-
• Contents: 1. Interruptive narratives : emergent voices and haunted presents -- 2. Posting the present : modernity and modernization in Glenn Patterson's 'Fat lad' (1992) and Robert McLiam Wilson's 'Eureka Street' (1996) -- 3. Secret hauntings : Seamus Deane's 'Reading in the dark' (1996), Joseph O'Connor's 'The salesman' (1998), Jennifer Johnston's 'Fool's sanctuary' (1987), Mary Leland's 'The Killeen' (1985) and Linda Anderson's 'To stay alive' (1984) -- 4. Mimicry, authority and subversion : Brian Moore's 'The magician's wife' (1997), Emma Donoghue's 'Slammerkin' (2000) and John McGahern's 'Amongst women' (1990) -- 5. Unspoken desires : Jennifer Johnston's later novels, Emma Donoghue's 'Stir-fry' (1994) and Kathleen Ferguson's 'The maid's tale' (1994) -- 6. Fetishizing absence : Dermot Bolger's 'Father's music' (1997) and 'Emily's shoes' (1992) -- 7. 'Mater Dolorosa' : abject mothers in Roddy Doyle's 'The snapper' (1990) and Mary Morrissy's 'Mother of pearl' (1995) -- 8. Limit and transgression : Roddy Doyle's 'The woman who walked into doors' (1996), Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy' (1992) and William Trevor's 'Felicia's journey' (1994) -- 9. Return to silence and beyond : speculative narrative in Bernard MacLaverty's 'Grace notes' (1997) and John Banville's 'Birchwood' (1973).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 823/.91099417; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Engels; Romans; English fiction; English fiction -- Irish authors; Intellectual life; Literature; Romans; Engels; Englisch; Roman; Roman; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life; Northern Ireland -- In literature; Ireland -- In literature; Ireland; Northern Ireland; Irland; Nordirland; Irland; Englisch; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137126528; 1137126523
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