Gerry Smyth

The Judas kiss (eBook, ePUB)

Treason and betrayal in six modern Irish novels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098246
• Artikelnr.: 43436643

Autorenporträt

Gerry Smyth is a Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Betrayal and the Irish Novel Part I 1. A short history of betrayal 2. Déirdre and the Sons of Usnach: a case study in Irish betrayal Part II 3. 'Trust not appearances'
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) 4. the landscape of betrayal
Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer (1925) 5. a spy in the house of love
Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day (1949) 6. Jesus or Judas?
Francis Stuart's Black List, Section H (1971) 7. 'Cangled both to treachery'
Eugene McCabe's Death and Nightingales (1993) 8. 'A family
a whole fucking country
drowning in shame'
Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007) Index