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The comic tradition in Irish women writers /

In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy has evolved side by side with the canonical comic tradition. They call for a revisionist reading...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: O'Connor, Theresa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What foremothers? / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • The voices of Maria Edgeworth's comedy / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • Hyacinth and the wise man : Lady Gregory's comic enterprise / Mary Lowe-Evans
  • "Humor with a Gender" : Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M. / James M. Cahalan
  • The crumbling fortress : Molly Keane's comedies of Anglo-Irish manners / Rachael Jane Lynch
  • Iris Murdoch's moral comedy / Flora Alexander
  • (S)he was too scrupulous always : Edna O'Brien and the comic tradition / Michael Patrick Gillespie
  • History, gender, and the post-colonial condition : Julia O'Faolain's comic rewriting of Finnegans Wake / Theresa O'Connor
  • Lashings of the mother tongue : Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's anarchic laughter / Mary O'Connor
  • Joyce and Boylan's Black Baby : "swiftly and silently" / Jean-Louis Giovannangeli.