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Edna O'Brien
Amanda Greenwood
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Description for Edna O'Brien
Paperback.
Since the publication of her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, Edna O’Brien has experimented with an impressive range of forms and genres. Her most recent trilogy, completed in 1999 with the publication of Wild Decembers, focuses on issues surrounding contemporary Ireland such as terrorism, decolonisation and abortion law. Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O’Brien as a narrow chronicler of women’s inner lives, arguing that O’Brien’s writings are not only radical but deeply revealing of the position of women under patriarchy in Ireland and beyond; the later ... Read more
Since the publication of her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, Edna O’Brien has experimented with an impressive range of forms and genres. Her most recent trilogy, completed in 1999 with the publication of Wild Decembers, focuses on issues surrounding contemporary Ireland such as terrorism, decolonisation and abortion law. Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O’Brien as a narrow chronicler of women’s inner lives, arguing that O’Brien’s writings are not only radical but deeply revealing of the position of women under patriarchy in Ireland and beyond; the later ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746309674
SKU
V9780746309674
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Ref
99-24
About Amanda Greenwood
Dr Amanda Greenwood has recently left the English Literature department at the University of Hull to take up a full-time teaching post at the Andrew Marvell School, Hull. Before that she taught at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Huddersfield and Trinity and All Saint’s College, Leeds.
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