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Informationen zum Autor Scott Brewster is Director of English at the University of Salford.. Michael Parker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies. Klappentext This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative work in film, visual culture and the performing arts. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades! a period marked by major cultural! social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents! and also considers creative work in film! visual culture and the performing arts. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionI: Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 - Michael ParkerII: Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990 - Scott BrewsterPart One: Drama1. 'Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990' - Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny 2. 'Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr - Maria Kurdi 3. 'The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the 'Haughey' Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen - Anthony Roche 4. 'New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage' - Martine Pelletier Part Two: Poetry5. 'Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990' - Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh 6. Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke' - Lucy Collins 7. 'The places I go back to': Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus Heaney's Later Poetry - Joanna Cowper 8. 'Neither Here Nor There': New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) - Michael Parker Part Three: Fiction 9. 'Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again': Irish Fiction and Autobiography since 1990 - Liam Harte 10. Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel - Heidi Hansson 11. Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels and John McGahern's Memoir - Stephen Regan 12. Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road - Vivian Valvano Lynch 13. 'What's it like being Irish?': The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer - Jennifer M. Jeffers 14. Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles - Neal Alexander Part Four : After Words15. 'What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?': The Representation of Violence in Northern Irish Art - Shane Alcobia-Murphy Notes on contributorsIndex...
