Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill : farce in contemporary Irish and Irish-American narratives / / Edward A. Hagan.
Goodbye Yeats and O’Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O’Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O’Brien, Michae...
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Superior document: | Costerus new series ; 183 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Costerus ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- THE DONKEYS AND THE NARROWBACKS: CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS ANIMALS
- DEFINING THE OBJECT FOR STRUGGLE: EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE AGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY – FRANK MCCOURT, ANGELA’S ASHES AND SEAMUS DEANE, READING IN THE DARK
- BELFAST AND SOUTH BOSTON: CUT OFF FROM SERIOUS CONSIDERATION – GERRY ADAMS, BEFORE THE DAWN AND MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, ALL SOULS
- THE VOID OF IRISH IDENTITY: NUALA O’FAOLAIN, ARE YOU SOMEBODY
- TIM O’BRIEN’S IRONIC AESTHETIC: FAITH AND THE NATURE OF A “TRUE” STORY
- THE DELUSION OF CULTURAL STUDIES: COLM TÓIBÍN, THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP
- PICARESQUE FARCE: NICK LAIRD, UTTERLY MONKEY
- ICONS FOR THE NEW AGE: THE TRANSVESTITE IN PATRICK MCCABE’S BREAKFAST ON PLUTO AND THE BALLET DANCER IN COLUM MCCANN’S DANCER
- HOME ISN’T THERE ANY MORE: WILLIAM TREVOR’S THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT AND JOHN MCGAHERN’S BY THE LAKE
- TRANSFORMING NOSTALGIA FOR THE VICTORIAN: CLARE BOYLAN’S CHARLOTTE BRONTË NOVEL, EMMA BROWN
- THE IRISH WESTERN EPIC: RODDY DOYLE REMAKES JOHN FORD – THE LAST ROUNDUP
- THE AMERICAN WAKE: ALICE MCDERMOTT, CHILD OF MY HEART
- BEING IRISH AND BEING NOTHING: THE ABYSS OF IDENTITY IN ALICE MCDERMOTT’S CHARMING BILLY AND EDWARD J. DELANEY’S FICTION
- THE HEADACHE AND THE ASPIRIN: SEX AS DISEASE AND CURE IN SHERMAN ALEXIE’S THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD, COLUM MCCANN’S THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS, AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY STORIES
- LOW SERIOUSNESS IN BETH LORDAN’S BUT COME YE BACK
- THE DECAY OF LYING? ON LIFE SUPPORT IN WILLIAM KENNEDY’S ROSCOE AND THOMAS KELLY’S THE RACKETS
- VISITING THE AMERICAN SIXTIES ON IRELAND: MARY GORDON’S PEARL
- THE NECESSITY AND FUTILITY OF ROMANCE: THOMAS KELLY’S EMPIRE RISING
- WHAT IS THE IRISH STORY? R.F. FOSTER’S THE IRISH STORY
- THE FUNCTION OF FARCE AT THE PRESENT TIME
- THE PATTERN OF READING IN THE DARK
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.