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Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill : farce in contemporary Irish and Irish-American narratives /
Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Tibn, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O'Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O'...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2010.
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| Collection: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 183. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction. The Donkeys and the Narrowbacks: Contemporary Circus Animals; Part One Memoirs Defining Where We Are Now; 1. Defining the Object for Struggle: Epistemology in the Age of Autobiography Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes and Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark; 2. Belfast and South Boston: Cut off from Serious Consideration Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn and Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls; 3. The Void of Irish Identity: Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody.
- Part Two The Writers Strike Back: Using Irony to Subvert the Fascination of Cultural Studies4. Tim O'Brien's Ironic Aesthetic: Faith and the Nature of a "True" Story (co-authored with John Briggs); 5. The Delusion of Cultural Studies: Colm Tibn, The Blackwater Lightship; Part Three Serious and Not-So-Serious Farce in Contemporary Irish Fiction; 6. Picaresque Farce: Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey; 7. Icons for the New Age: The Transvestite in Patrick McCabe's Bre.