Contemporary Irish. Fiction. Themes, Tropes, Theories. Edited by. Liam Harte.
Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies. St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, London and.
Contemporary Irish Fiction Themes, Tropes, Theories Edited by
Liam Harte Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, London and
Michael Parker Principal Lecturer in English University of Central Lancashire
Contents Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Liam Harte and Michael Parker 2 The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction Gerry Smyth 3 The Aesthetics of Exile George O'Brien 4 Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in Brian Moore's Cold Heaven and John McGahern's Amongst Women Siobhdn Holland 5 Versions of Banville: Versions of Modernism Joseph McMinn 6 Figuring the Mother in Contemporary Irish Fiction Ann Owens Weekes
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7 Petrifying Time: Incest Narratives from Contemporary Ireland Christine St Peter
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8 New Noises from the Woodshed: the Novels of Emma Donoghue Antoinette Qiiinn
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9 ContamiNation: Patrick McCabe and Colm Toibin's Pathographies of the Republic Tom Herron
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10 'The Pose Arranged and Lingered Over': Visualizing the 'Troubles' Richard Haslam
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11 Bourgeois Redemptions: the Fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson Richard Kirkland
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12 Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction Liam Harte and Michael Parker