Flann O'Brien : Problems With Authority /

Recent years have witnessed a series of shifts in the reception of Brian O'Nolan's work, with the publication of collected short stories and dramatic texts and a systematic critical reappraisal of once marginal titles in the author's canon. The vast collections of O'Nolan's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCourt, John, 1965- (Editor ), Fagan, Paul (Editor ), Borg, Ruben (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
O'Brien, Flann, > 1911-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editors' introduction / Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, John McCourt
  • part I. 'Neither popular nor profitable' : O'Nolan vs. The plain people
  • 1. 'Irreverence moving towards the blasphemous' : Brian O'Nolan, Blather and Irish popular culture / Carol Taaffe
  • 2. 'No more drunk, truculent, witty, Celtic, dark, desperate, amorous paddies!' : Brian O'Nolan and the Irish stereotype / Maebh Long
  • 3. Lamhd láftar and bad language : bilingual cognition in Cruiskeen lawn
  • Maria Kager
  • 4. 'The half-said thing' : Cruiskeen lawn, Japan and the Second World War / Catherine Flynn
  • 5. Physical comedy and the comedy of physics in The THIRD POLICEMAN, The Dalkey archive and Cruiskeen lawn / Katherine Ebury
  • part II. Mixed inks : O'Nolan vs. his peers
  • 6. 'Widening out the mind' : Flann O'Brien's 'wide mind' between Joyce's 'mental life' and Beckett's 'deep within' / Dirk Van Hulle
  • 7. Phwat's in a nam? : Brian O'Nolan as a late revivalist / Ronan Crowley
  • 8. Fantastic economies : Flann O'Brien and James Stephens / R.W. Maslen
  • 9. The ideal and the ironic : incongruous Irelands in An béal bocht, No laughing matter and Ciarán Ó Nualláin's Óige an Dearthár / Ian Ó Caoimh
  • 10. More 'gravid' than gravitas : Collopy, Fahrt and the Pope in Rome / John McCourt
  • part III. Gross impieties : O'Nolan vs. the sacred texts
  • 11. 'A scholar manqué'? : further notes on Brian Ó Nualláin's engagement with early Irish literature / Louis de Paor
  • 12. In defence of 'gap-worded' stories : Brian O'Nolan on authority, reading and writing / Alana Gillespie
  • 13. Reading Flann with Paul : modernism and the trope of conversion / Ruben Borg
  • 14. The Dalkey archive : a Menippean satire against authority / Dieter Fuchs
  • 15. 'Walking forever on falling ground' : closure, hypertext and the textures of possibility in The third policeman / Tamara Radak.

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