Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts.

The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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: Co

  Über den Autor / die Autorin

  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).

  Zusammenfassung

  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.

  Zusatztext

  Harte's collection succeeds admirably. Gothic, romanticism, the historical novel, magic naturalism, social realism, modernism, hard-boiled noir, children's lit, film, political thrillers, police procedurals, the domestic novel, fiction in Irish, the Bildungsroman, post-modern experimentation - it's all here. If you teach modern literature, you will love this book. If you teach Irish literature, you will need it.

  Bericht

  Harte's collection succeeds admirably. Gothic, romanticism, the historical novel, magic naturalism, social realism, modernism, hard-boiled noir, children's lit, film, political thrillers, police procedurals, the domestic novel, fiction in Irish, the Bildungsroman, post-modern experimentation - it's all here. If you teach modern literature, you will love this book. If you teach Irish literature, you will need it. Michael Gleason, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Liam (Professor of Irish Literature Harte
• Mitarbeit: Liam Harte (Herausgeber), Liam (Professor of Irish Literature Harte (Herausgeber), Harte Liam (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780198754893
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875489-3
• Seiten: 704
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Ireland, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000