The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvLiam Harte,University of Manchester) Harte, Liam (Professor of Irish Literature, Professor of Irish Literature, University of ManchesterProfessor of Irish Literature

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts.The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-30
Mått173 x 246 x 35 mm
Vikt1 216 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Handbooks
Antal sidor704
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198889892

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Liam Harte is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. His publications include A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Macmillan, 2000; co-edited with Michael Parker).

Part I: Introduction1: Liam Harte: Modern Irish Fiction: Renewing the Art of the NewPart II: Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Legacies2: Jarlath Killeen: Irish Gothic Fiction3: Gerardine Meaney: Nation, Gender, and Genre: Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Development of Irish Fiction4: James H. Murphy: Shame is the Spur: Novels by Irish Catholics, 1873-1922Part III: Irish Revivalism and Irish Modernism5: Elizabeth Grubgeld: George Moore: Gender, Place, and Narrative6: Gregory Castle: Revival Fiction: Proclaiming the Future7: Gregory Dobbins: The Materialist Fabulist Dialectic: James Stephens, Eimar O'Duffy, and Magic Naturalism8: Sam Slote: Epic Modernism: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake9: Brian Ó Conchubhair: The Parallax of Irish-Language Modernism, 1900-1940Part IV: After the Revival, In Joyce's Wake10: Louis de Paor: Lethal in Two Languages: Narrative Form and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Flann O'Brien and Máirtín Ó Cadhain11: Sinéad Mooney: Effing the Ineffable: Samuel Beckett's Narrators,12: Allan Hepburn: Obliquities: Elizabeth Bowen and the Modern Short Story13: Gerry Smyth: The Role and Representation of Betrayal in the Irish Short Story Since Dubliners14: Heather Ingman: Arrows in Flight: Success and Failure in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction15: Norman Vance: 'Proud of Our Wee Ulster'?: Writing Region and Identity in Ulster FictionPart V: Fiction in the Modernizing Republic and the Troubled North16: Jane Elizabeth Dougherty: Edna O'Brien and the Politics of Belatedness17: Frank Shovlin: 'Half-Arsed Modern': John McGahern and the Failed State18: Neil Murphy: John Banville's Fictions of Art19: Caroline Magennis: Intimacy, Sex, and Violence in Northern Irish Women's FictionPart VI: Irish Genre Fiction20: Ian Campbell Ross: Irish Crime Fiction21: Jack Fennell: Irish Science Fiction22: Pádraic Whyte: House, Land, and Family Life: Children's Fiction and Irish HomesPart VII: Fact into Fiction, Fiction into Film23: Melissa Fegan: The Great Famine in Fiction, 1901-201524: Laura O'Connor: Fictions of 1916 in the Story of Ireland25: Kevin Rockett: Irish Literary CinemaPart VIII: Crossings and Crosscurrents26: Tony Murray: The Fiction of the Irish in England27: Stefanie Lehner: Devolutionary States: Crosscurrents in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction28: Sally Barr Ebest: Sex, Violence, and Religion in the Irish-American Domestic Novel29: Sinéad Moynihan: 'A Sly, Mid-Atlantic Appropriation': Ireland, the United States, and Transnational Fictions of SpainPart IX: Contemporary Irish Fiction30: Derek Hand: Dublin in the Rare New Times31: Fiona McCann: Northern Irish Fiction After the Troubles32: Michael G. Cronin: 'Our Nameless Desires': The Erotics of Time and Space in Contemporary Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction33: Pádraig Ó Siadhail: Contemporary Irish-Language Fiction34: Susan Cahill: Post-Millennial Irish FictionPart X: Critical Evaluations35: Eve Patten: The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist

In the concluding essay in Liam Harte's Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Eve Patten stakes a claim for the Irish novelist "placed firmly at the political and cultural vanguard of the changing nation". Given the profound transformations of Irish culture and society over the past few decades, it is a brave claim. And yet, it is more than substantiated by the thirty-five essays that make up this invigorating collection, which brings together many of the leading scholars in the field to chart the continuing importance of Irish fiction, nationally and internationally.

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