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The contemporary Irish novel : critical readings /

By: Peach, Linden, 1951-.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: xvi, 250 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780333948927; 9780333948934.Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Northern Ireland -- In literature | Ireland -- In literatureDDC classification: 809
Contents:
1. Interruptive narratives : emergent voices and haunted presents -- 2. Posting the present : modernity and modernization in Glenn Patterson's 'Fat lad' (1992) and Robert McLiam Wilson's 'Eureka Street' (1996) -- 3. Secret hauntings : Seamus Deane's 'Reading in the dark' (1996), Joseph O'Connor's 'The salesman' (1998), Jennifer Johnston's 'Fool's sanctuary' (1987), Mary Leland's 'The Killeen' (1985) and Linda Anderson's 'To stay alive' (1984) -- 4. Mimicry, authority and subversion : Brian Moore's 'The magician's wife' (1997), Emma Donoghue's 'Slammerkin' (2000) and John McGahern's 'Amongst women' (1990) -- 5. Unspoken desires : Jennifer Johnston's later novels, Emma Donoghue's 'Stir-fry' (1994) and Kathleen Ferguson's 'The maid's tale' (1994) -- 6. Fetishizing absence : Dermot Bolger's 'Father's music' (1997) and 'Emily's shoes' (1992) -- 7. 'Mater Dolorosa' : abject mothers in Roddy Doyle's 'The snapper' (1990) and Mary Morrissy's 'Mother of pearl' (1995) -- 8. Limit and transgression : Roddy Doyle's 'The woman who walked into doors' (1996), Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy' (1992) and William Trevor's 'Felicia's journey' (1994) -- 9. Return to silence and beyond : speculative narrative in Bernard MacLaverty's 'Grace notes' (1997) and John Banville's 'Birchwood' (1973).
Review: "This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

1. Interruptive narratives : emergent voices and haunted presents -- 2. Posting the present : modernity and modernization in Glenn Patterson's 'Fat lad' (1992) and Robert McLiam Wilson's 'Eureka Street' (1996) -- 3. Secret hauntings : Seamus Deane's 'Reading in the dark' (1996), Joseph O'Connor's 'The salesman' (1998), Jennifer Johnston's 'Fool's sanctuary' (1987), Mary Leland's 'The Killeen' (1985) and Linda Anderson's 'To stay alive' (1984) -- 4. Mimicry, authority and subversion : Brian Moore's 'The magician's wife' (1997), Emma Donoghue's 'Slammerkin' (2000) and John McGahern's 'Amongst women' (1990) -- 5. Unspoken desires : Jennifer Johnston's later novels, Emma Donoghue's 'Stir-fry' (1994) and Kathleen Ferguson's 'The maid's tale' (1994) -- 6. Fetishizing absence : Dermot Bolger's 'Father's music' (1997) and 'Emily's shoes' (1992) -- 7. 'Mater Dolorosa' : abject mothers in Roddy Doyle's 'The snapper' (1990) and Mary Morrissy's 'Mother of pearl' (1995) -- 8. Limit and transgression : Roddy Doyle's 'The woman who walked into doors' (1996), Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy' (1992) and William Trevor's 'Felicia's journey' (1994) -- 9. Return to silence and beyond : speculative narrative in Bernard MacLaverty's 'Grace notes' (1997) and John Banville's 'Birchwood' (1973).

"This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers."

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