Irish literature since 1990 : diverse voices / edited by Scott Brewster and Michael Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewster, Scott (Reader in English literature)

Parker, Michael, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish literature.

National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 / Michael Parker Parker, Michael

Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster Brewster, Scott

Part 1: Drama

" Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990' - Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny

" Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Maria Kurdi Kurdi, Maria

" The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the

" Haughey' Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche Roche, Anthony

" New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage' / Martine Pelletier Pelletier, Martine

Part 2: Poetry

" Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990' / Jerzy Jarniewicz Jarniewicz, Jerzy, John McDonagh McDonagh, John

Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke' / Lucy Collins Collins, Lucy

" The places I go back to': Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus Heaney's Later Poetry / Joanna Cowper Cowper, Joanna

" Neither Here Nor There': New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker Parker, Michael

Part 3: Fiction

" Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again': Irish Fiction and Autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte Harte, Liam

Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel / Heidi Hansson Hansson, Heidi

Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels and John McGahern's Memoir / Stephen Regan Regan, Stephen

Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch Lynch, Vivian Valvano

" What's it like being Irish?': The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer / Jennifer M. Jeffers Jeffers, Jennifer M.

Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles / Neal Alexander Alexander, Neal

Part 4: After Words

" What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?': The Representation of Violence in Northern Irish Art / Shane Alcobia-Murphy Alcobia-Murphy, Shane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719075636

0719075637

OCLC:

234435621