Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Hallissy is a professor of English at Long Island University in Brookville, New York. She is the author of Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self; A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows: Chaucer's Women and Medieval Codes of Conduct; Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature; and many scholarly articles on medieval and modern literature. Klappentext Examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. Each chapter focuses on one significant representative piece of contemporary Irish fiction or drama by filling in its cultural, historical, and literary background. Zusammenfassung Examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. Each chapter focuses on one significant representative piece of contemporary Irish fiction or drama by filling in its cultural! historical! and literary background.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Hallissy, Margaret Hallissy
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781611176629
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-662-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature; Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies