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"In a series of critical and biographical essays, Too Smart to Be Sentimental offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America. This collection introduces the reader to the works of twelve contemporary Irish American women writers, some of whom are well known, such as Joyce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ebest, Sally Barr, McInerney, Kathleen H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > Irish American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Irish Americans in literature.
Irish Americans > Ethnic identity.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine irlandaise > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine irlandaise dans la littérature.
American literature
American literature > Irish American authors
American literature > Women authors
Irish Americans > Ethnic identity
Irish Americans in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest
  • Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso
  • Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan
  • "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney
  • Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson
  • Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan
  • "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo
  • Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott
  • Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins
  • The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
  • Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee
  • Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.

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