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Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann OBrien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate
Carol Taaffe
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Description for Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann OBrien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate
Hardcover. Investigates how the Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism. This work offers an assessment of his work in its Irish context, arguing that his self-reflexive comic writing betrays a crisis of literary identity that is rooted in the cultural dynamics of post-Independence Ireland. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
This book investigates how Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism, in both Irish and English. It offers the first thorough assessment of his work in its Irish context, arguing that his self-reflexive comic writing betrays a crisis of literary identity that is rooted in the cultural dynamics of post-Independence Ireland. Where previous studies have concentrated on the early novels, presenting him as an experimental writer who precociously anticipated the discoveries of later literary theory, this book instead explores his broad-ranging humour (as novelist and newspaper columnist) in its cultural contexts. What emerges from this fresh perspective is ... Read more
This book investigates how Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism, in both Irish and English. It offers the first thorough assessment of his work in its Irish context, arguing that his self-reflexive comic writing betrays a crisis of literary identity that is rooted in the cultural dynamics of post-Independence Ireland. Where previous studies have concentrated on the early novels, presenting him as an experimental writer who precociously anticipated the discoveries of later literary theory, this book instead explores his broad-ranging humour (as novelist and newspaper columnist) in its cultural contexts. What emerges from this fresh perspective is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
284
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184424
SKU
V9781859184424
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About Carol Taaffe
Carol Taaffe is working in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin and is a senior tutor in the School of English and Drama, University College Dublin.
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