Reading the contemporary Irish novel 1987-2007 /
Harte, Liam.
Reading the contemporary Irish novel 1987-2007 / Liam Harte - [Place of publication not identifed] : Wiley Blackwell, c2014 - x, 263 pages ;
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter1. In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) -- Chapter2. House Arrest: John McGahern's Amongst Women (1990) -- Chapter3. Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992) -- Chapter4. Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992) -- Chapter5. Unbearable Proximities: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey (1994) -- Chapter6. History's Hostages: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation (1996) -- Chapter7. Selfhood Deferred: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark (1996) -- Chapter8. The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way (2005) -- Chapter9. Mourning Remains Unknown: Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007).
This book examines some of the most well-known and critically feted works of contemporary Irish Literary fiction. Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland's most eminent writers. The novel is the only developing genre and therefore it reflects more deeply, more essentially, more sensitively and rapidly, reality itself in the process of its unfolding.
9781444336191
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
PR 8803 .H37 2014
Reading the contemporary Irish novel 1987-2007 / Liam Harte - [Place of publication not identifed] : Wiley Blackwell, c2014 - x, 263 pages ;
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter1. In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) -- Chapter2. House Arrest: John McGahern's Amongst Women (1990) -- Chapter3. Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992) -- Chapter4. Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992) -- Chapter5. Unbearable Proximities: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey (1994) -- Chapter6. History's Hostages: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation (1996) -- Chapter7. Selfhood Deferred: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark (1996) -- Chapter8. The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way (2005) -- Chapter9. Mourning Remains Unknown: Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007).
This book examines some of the most well-known and critically feted works of contemporary Irish Literary fiction. Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland's most eminent writers. The novel is the only developing genre and therefore it reflects more deeply, more essentially, more sensitively and rapidly, reality itself in the process of its unfolding.
9781444336191
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
PR 8803 .H37 2014