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Violence, politics and textual interventions in Northern Ireland / Peter Mahon.
Van Pelt Library PR8891.N67 M34 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahon, Peter, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors.
- Authors, Irish--20th century--Political and social views.
- Authors, Irish.
- Authors, Irish--20th century--History and criticism.
- Politics and literature--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Literature and society--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Intellectual life.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- Northern Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Northern Ireland.
- Northern Ireland--In literature.
- Political violence in literature.
- Social conflict in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Contents:
- Blood, shit and tears: the textual reinscription of sacrifice, ritual and victimhood in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal
- The law's terrifying double: "Legal Panic" in Glenn Patterson's That which was
- Family matters: Jim Sheridan's In the name of the father and Terry George's Some mother's son
- States of desire in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto
- "Something like God": shit, orifices, and bodily signifiers in Louise Dean's This human season.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230576438
- 0230576435
- OCLC:
- 298778240
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