Out of history : essays on the writings of Sebastian Barry / edited by Christina Hunt Mahony.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahony, Christina Hunt, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barry, Sebastian, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.

Barry, Sebastian.

Barry, Sebastian, 1955-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press ; Dublin : Carysfort Press, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction / Christina Hunt Mahony

From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry / Peter Denman

Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry's Juvenile Fiction / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

'To have a father is always big news': Theme and Structure in The Engine of Owl-Light / Bruce Stewart

'Everyman's Story is the Whisper of God': Sacred and Secular in Barry's Dramaturgy / David Cregan

Children of the Light amid the Risky Dancers: Barry's Naïfs and the Poetry of Humanism / Christina Hunt Mahony

'All the Long Traditions': Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro / John Wilson Foster

Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barry's The Only True History of Lizzie Finn / Anthony Roche

Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne / Nicholas Grene

'Something of us will remain': Sebastian Barry and Irish History / Roy Foster

Hinterland: The Public Becomes Private / Colm Tóibín

'In the dank margins of things': Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire / Claire Gleitman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-243) and index.

ISBN:

0813214599

OCLC:

62324888

Publisher Number:

9780813214597