The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

Herausgeber: Harte, Liam

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 178mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1248g
• ISBN-13: 9780198889892
• ISBN-10: 0198889895
• Artikelnr.: 67865542

Autorenporträt

Liam Harte is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. His publications include A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Macmillan, 2000; co-edited with Michael Parker).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Introduction
* 1: Liam Harte: Modern Irish Fiction: Renewing the Art of the New
* Part II: Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Legacies
* 2: Jarlath Killeen: Irish Gothic Fiction
* 3: Gerardine Meaney: Nation, Gender, and Genre: Nineteenth-Century
Women's Writing and the Development of Irish Fiction
* 4: James H. Murphy: Shame is the Spur: Novels by Irish Catholics,
1873-1922
* Part III: Irish Revivalism and Irish Modernism
* 5: Elizabeth Grubgeld: George Moore: Gender, Place, and Narrative
* 6: Gregory Castle: Revival Fiction: Proclaiming the Future
* 7: Gregory Dobbins: The Materialist Fabulist Dialectic: James
Stephens, Eimar O'Duffy, and Magic Naturalism
* 8: Sam Slote: Epic Modernism: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
* 9: Brian Ó Conchubhair: The Parallax of Irish-Language Modernism,
1900-1940
* Part IV: After the Revival, In Joyce's Wake
* 10: Louis de Paor: Lethal in Two Languages: Narrative Form and
Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Flann O'Brien and Máirtín Ó
Cadhain
* 11: Sinéad Mooney: Effing the Ineffable: Samuel Beckett's Narrators,
* 12: Allan Hepburn: Obliquities: Elizabeth Bowen and the Modern Short
Story
* 13: Gerry Smyth: The Role and Representation of Betrayal in the Irish
Short Story Since Dubliners
* 14: Heather Ingman: Arrows in Flight: Success and Failure in
Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction
* 15: Norman Vance: 'Proud of Our Wee Ulster'?: Writing Region and
Identity in Ulster Fiction
* Part V: Fiction in the Modernizing Republic and the Troubled North
* 16: Jane Elizabeth Dougherty: Edna O'Brien and the Politics of
Belatedness
* 17: Frank Shovlin: 'Half-Arsed Modern': John McGahern and the Failed
State
* 18: Neil Murphy: John Banville's Fictions of Art
* 19: Caroline Magennis: Intimacy, Sex, and Violence in Northern Irish
Women's Fiction
* Part VI: Irish Genre Fiction
* 20: Ian Campbell Ross: Irish Crime Fiction
* 21: Jack Fennell: Irish Science Fiction
* 22: Pádraic Whyte: House, Land, and Family Life: Children's Fiction
and Irish Homes
* Part VII: Fact into Fiction, Fiction into Film
* 23: Melissa Fegan: The Great Famine in Fiction, 1901-2015
* 24: Laura O'Connor: Fictions of 1916 in the Story of Ireland
* 25: Kevin Rockett: Irish Literary Cinema
* Part VIII: Crossings and Crosscurrents
* 26: Tony Murray: The Fiction of the Irish in England
* 27: Stefanie Lehner: Devolutionary States: Crosscurrents in
Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction
* 28: Sally Barr Ebest: Sex, Violence, and Religion in the
Irish-American Domestic Novel
* 29: Sinéad Moynihan: 'A Sly, Mid-Atlantic Appropriation': Ireland,
the United States, and Transnational Fictions of Spain
* Part IX: Contemporary Irish Fiction
* 30: Derek Hand: Dublin in the Rare New Times
* 31: Fiona McCann: Northern Irish Fiction After the Troubles
* 32: Michael G. Cronin: 'Our Nameless Desires': The Erotics of Time
and Space in Contemporary Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction
* 33: Pádraig Ó Siadhail: Contemporary Irish-Language Fiction
* 34: Susan Cahill: Post-Millennial Irish Fiction
* Part X: Critical Evaluations
* 35: Eve Patten: The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist