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Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist
Keith Hopper
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Description for Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist
Paperback. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O'Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, At Swim Two Birds (1939). By 1940 O'Brien was confronted with two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats's Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With The Third Policeman O'Brien forges a powerful synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he chooses marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism. ... Read more
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, At Swim Two Birds (1939). By 1940 O'Brien was confronted with two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats's Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With The Third Policeman O'Brien forges a powerful synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he chooses marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184875
SKU
V9781859184875
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About Keith Hopper
Keith Hopper, University of Oxford
Reviews for Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist
'The highest praise I can give a critical book is that it makes me want to read or re-read the works discussed. Keith Hopper's book on Flann O'Brien does that. He makes reading Flann O'Brien sound like an exciting and productive thing to do'. (J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine) 'Hopper is a good explicator, his approach is ... Read more