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Contemporary Irish fiction : themes, tropes, theories / - London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - xii, 271 pages ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.

The right to the city : re-presentations of Dublin in contemporary Irish fiction / Gerry Smyth -- The aesthetics of exile / George O'Brien -- Re-citing the rosary : women, Catholicism and agency in Brian Moore's Cold heaven and John McGahern's Amongst women / Siobhán Holland -- Versions of Banville : versions of modernism / Joseph McMinn -- Figuring the mother in contemporary Irish fiction / Ann Owens Weekes -- Petrifying time : incest narratives from contemporary Ireland / Christine St Peter -- New noises from the woodshed : the novels of Emma Donoghue / Antoinette Quinn --ContamiNation : Patrick McCabe and Colm Tóibín's pathographies of the Republic / Tom Herron -- 'The pose arranged and lingered over' : visualizing the 'troubles' / Richard Haslam -- Bourgeois redemptions : the fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson / Richard Kirkland -- Reconfiguring identities : recent Northern Irish fiction / Liam Harte and Michael Parker.

ISBN: 0312231644 9780312231644 9780312231644 0333683803 9780333683804 0333683811 9780333683811

LCCN: 99055834

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA0Z7721 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: BA46537173 JP-ToKJK

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.
Northern Ireland--Intellectual life.
Northern Ireland--In literature.
Ireland--In literature.

Dewey Class. No.: 809 HAR