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Breaking the mould : literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Contributor(s): Maher, Eamon | O'Brien, Eugene.
Series: Reimagining Ireland: v. 36.Publisher: Bern : Peter Lang, c2011Description: vi, 241 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783034302326 (alk. paper); 9783034302326:; 3034302320 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Catholic Church -- In literature | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Christianity in literature | Catholics in literatureDDC classification: 809
Contents:
Introduction / EAMON MAHER AND EUGENE O'BRIEN -- Precursors of Change. The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / JEANNE I. LAKATOS -- "In the buginning is the woid": Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce's Ulysses / CATHY MCGLYNN -- The Donkey and the Sabbath / MARY PIERSE -- Developments in the Irish and Irish-American Novel. Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY -- The Poets and the Playwrights. "Any Catholics among you...?": Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / EUGENE O'BRIEN -- "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / JOHN MCDONAGH -- "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / VICTOR MERRIMAN -- Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / TONY CORBETT.
Summary: Catholicism has played a major role in Irish society for centuries. At times, it is perceived in a negative light, although there are positive aspects such as education and concern for the poor. This book examines how Ireland's writers have portrayed Catholicism's relationship with the country.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / EAMON MAHER AND EUGENE O'BRIEN -- Precursors of Change. The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / JEANNE I. LAKATOS -- "In the buginning is the woid": Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce's Ulysses / CATHY MCGLYNN -- The Donkey and the Sabbath / MARY PIERSE -- Developments in the Irish and Irish-American Novel. Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY -- The Poets and the Playwrights. "Any Catholics among you...?": Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / EUGENE O'BRIEN -- "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / JOHN MCDONAGH -- "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / VICTOR MERRIMAN -- Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / TONY CORBETT.

Catholicism has played a major role in Irish society for centuries. At times, it is perceived in a negative light, although there are positive aspects such as education and concern for the poor. This book examines how Ireland's writers have portrayed Catholicism's relationship with the country.

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