Novel and the Nation - Studies in the New Irish Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Gerry Smyth is a lecturer in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, teaching colonialism, post-colonialism and contemporary Irish fiction. He has published on Joyce, Arnold, Irish traditional music, and contemporary Irish cultural criticism. Klappentext New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the issues surrounding the emergence of the Irish Novel since the eighteenth century Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Theories And Histories 1. Theories: The birth of the nation; Cultural nationalism; Novel and nation 2. Forms: The author; The text; The reader 3. Themes: Madness and dreams; Family matters; The city and country Part Two: Contemporary Irish Fiction 4. Roddy Doyle and the New Irish Fiction: Roddy Doyle! Dermot Bolger! Patrick McCabe! Kathleen Ferguson! Mary Morrissey! Lia Mills 5. The Novel and the North: Deirdre Madden! Eoin McNamee! Colin Bateman! Glenn Pattterson!Robert MacLiam Wilson! Mary Beckett! Eugene McCabe! Kate O'Riordan 6. Borderlands: James Ryan! Joseph O Connor! Desmond Hogan! Emma Donoghue! Tom Lennon! Eilis Ni Dhuibhne! Richard Kearney! John McGahern Interview with Roddy Doyle Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gerry Smyth
• Verlag: Pluto
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.07.1997
• EAN: 9780745312156
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1215-6
• Seiten: 192
• Serien: Contemporary Irish Studies; Contemporary Irish Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, 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, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form