Voicing dissent : new perspectives in Irish criticism / edited by Sandrine Brisset and Noreen Doody.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brisset, Sandrine.

Doody, Noreen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenters in literature.

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

Irish literature.

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

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2012.

Summary:

This collection of twenty-two essays in literary criticism explores new research on concepts of radicalism and dissent in the analysis of Irish literature. Addressing a wide variety of source material and themes, papers discuss topics such as post-colonialism and Irish identity, heroes and misfits in Irish popular culture, gender and feminism in twentieth-century Irish narratives, and dissent and the Irish stage tradition. Contributors are academics in literary, film, and popular culture criticism from Irish and US Universities. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part 1 Verse and Subversion

1 'Stabbed up the line': Myth and Dissent in the Poetry of Brendan Kennelly / Sandrine Brisset Brisset, Sandrine 7

2 The Passing of Time in Thomas Kinsella's Early Poetry / Amy Galvin Galvin, Amy 16

3 Cribs and Collaborations in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill / Shannon Hipp Hipp, Shannon 24

4 Marginal Figures and Subversion in the Poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh / Caitríona Ní Chléirchín Chléirchín, Caitríona Ní 37

5 'Of them but not of them': Louis MacNeice and the 'Thirties Poets' / Simon Workman Workman, Simon 49

Part 2 Dissent on Stage

6 Tribunal Theatre and the Voice of Dissent as seen in Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry / Sheila McCormick McCormick, Sheila 61

7 Exploding the Kitchen Comedy: Maurice Meldon's Purple Path to the Poppy Field / Ian Walsh Walsh, Ian 69

8 A Brief Consideration of Dissent in Two Reformation Moralities: Love Feigned and Unfeigned and Three Laws / Brian Gourley Gourley, Brian 80

9 Irish Nationalist [Mis]readings of Ibsen: Padraig Pearse, Lennox Robinson and Thomas MacDonagh / Irina Ruppo Malone Malone, Irina Ruppo 91

Part 3 Postcolonialism and Irish Identity

10 Murder in the Margin: Descent and Dissent in Patrick McCabe's Winterwood and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer / Jessica Dougherty-McMichael Dougherty-McMichael, Jessica 103

11 Serious Fancy: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and the Literary Fairy Tale in Colonial Discourse / Katherine O'Keefe O'Keefe, Katherine 113

12 The Bell Magazine: A Dissenting Vision of Irish Identity / Kelly Matthews Matthews, Kelly 122

13 Postcolonial Trauma - Postmodern Recovery? Gender, Nation and Trauma in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction / Stefanie Lehner Lehner, Stefanie 129

Part 4 Rebellious Femininity

14 'What Kate Did': Subversive Dissent in Kate O'Brien's The Ante-Room / Sharon Tighe-Mooney Tighe-Mooney, Sharon 143

15 'Mastered yet controlling what they were mastered by': John McGahern's Amongst Women and the Female Dandy / Graham Price Price, Graham 159

16 'Anything neurotic, exotic, experimental or new': Trauma and Representation in Women's Writing on the Troubles / Anthea E. Cordner Cordner, Anthea E. 170

17 The Other Side of the Story: Femininity, Sexuality and Patriarchal Ireland in the Short Stories of Mary Lavin, Clare Boylan and Emma Donoghue / Lori Bennett Bennett, Lori 181

18 Intertextuality, Parody and Jouissance in Emma Donoghue's Dissenting Fairy Tales / Libe García Zarranz Zarranz, Libe García 190

Part 5 Pop Culture and Heroic Misfits

19 Folk Devils and Moral Panic: Sedition, Subversion and Sensation in Victorian Popular Culture / Michael Flanagan Flanagan, Michael 203

20 Disobeying Gilles Deleuze: Is Quentin Tarantino the Voice of Dissent? / Jenny O'Connor O'Connor, Jenny 215

21 'Sinne Laochra Fáil': Heroism and Heroes in the Work of Pádraig Ó Cíobháin / Sorcha de Brún Brún, Sorcha de 226

22 Captain Jack White, DSO - Anarchist and Proleptic Postructuralist / Leo Keohane Keohane, Leo 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780716531388

0716531380

OCLC:

766317190