Patrick McCabe’s Ireland : : The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood / / Jennifer Keating.

Few contemporary Irish writers have been more attuned to the historical influence of partition on Ireland’s culture and literary representation than Patrick McCabe. In the recent context of Brexit, his work produced in the late nineteen nineties and early two-thousands carries considerable poignancy...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Dialogue 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jennifer Keating
  • Attack of the Killer Clones: Attachment and Trauma in Patrick McCabe’s Films and Fiction / Luke Gibbons
  • The Social Fantastic: Graphic Violence in Patrick McCabe’s Fiction / K. Brisley Brennan
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Madman / Barbara M. Hoffmann
  • Specters of a Border Town: Irish History and Violence in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy / Aisling B. Cormack
  • Exploring Home from Stranger Shores: the Irish Experience in Patrick McCabe’s Mondo Desperado / Flore Coulouma
  • Violence, Peace, and Priests in Adapting Breakfast on Pluto / Lindsay Haney
  • Possible Worlds in Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood / James F. Knapp
  • ‘It Ain’t Like the Old Place Anymore’: Contemporary Ireland and the Postmodern, Fragmented Individual in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe / Kristina Varade
  • ‘Sinking the Pail into the Self-Conscious,’ Bubble Gum Ballads and Other Conversational Circles: Patrick McCabe, London 2015 / Jennifer Keating.