Colum McCann and the aesthetics of redemption / Eóin Flannery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flannery, Eóin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCann, Colum, 1965---Criticism and interpretation.

McCann, Colum.

McCann, Colum, 1965-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2011.

Summary:

The work of National Book Award-winning Irish novelist Colum McCann reveals the intersection of history with the lives of ordinary people. Flannery (English literature, Oxford Brookes U.) analyzes seven novels by McCann, written between 1994 and 2009. An introduction reviews McCann's background and critical reception of his work, and offers a detailed review of other scholarship on McCann. The present study looks especially at utopian impulses in McCann's work; other themes examined are arrival and departure, rites of passage, hope and youth, and embracing the 'other.' The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Arrival and Departure: Fishing the Sloe-Black River (1994) 21

2 Rites of Passage: Songdogs (1995) 55

3 The Retrieval of Dignity: This Side of Brightness (1998) 83

4 Hope and Youth: Everything in This Country Must (2000) 107

5 Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003) 133

6 Embracing the 'Other': Zoli (2006) 165

7 'Burning from the Inside Out': Let The Great World Spin (2009) 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780716530497

071653049X

OCLC:

696099003