Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill : farce in contemporary Irish and Irish-American narratives / Edward A. Hagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagan, Edward A.

Series:

Costerus ; 183.

Costerus new series ; 183

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farce--History and criticism.

Farce.

Humorous stories, Irish.

Irish American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Goodbye Yeats and O’Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O’Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O’Brien, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Alice McDermott, Edward J. Delaney, Beth Lordan, William Kennedy, Thomas Kelly, and Mary Gordon. The study argues that farce has been a major mode of recent Irish and Irish-American fiction and memoir—a primary indicator of the state of both Irish and Irish-American cultures in the early twenty-first century.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

THE DONKEYS AND THE NARROWBACKS: CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS ANIMALS

DEFINING THE OBJECT FOR STRUGGLE: EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE AGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY – FRANK MCCOURT, ANGELA’S ASHES AND SEAMUS DEANE, READING IN THE DARK

BELFAST AND SOUTH BOSTON: CUT OFF FROM SERIOUS CONSIDERATION – GERRY ADAMS, BEFORE THE DAWN AND MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, ALL SOULS

THE VOID OF IRISH IDENTITY: NUALA O’FAOLAIN, ARE YOU SOMEBODY

TIM O’BRIEN’S IRONIC AESTHETIC: FAITH AND THE NATURE OF A “TRUE” STORY

THE DELUSION OF CULTURAL STUDIES: COLM TÓIBÍN, THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP

PICARESQUE FARCE: NICK LAIRD, UTTERLY MONKEY

ICONS FOR THE NEW AGE: THE TRANSVESTITE IN PATRICK MCCABE’S BREAKFAST ON PLUTO AND THE BALLET DANCER IN COLUM MCCANN’S DANCER

HOME ISN’T THERE ANY MORE: WILLIAM TREVOR’S THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT AND JOHN MCGAHERN’S BY THE LAKE

TRANSFORMING NOSTALGIA FOR THE VICTORIAN: CLARE BOYLAN’S CHARLOTTE BRONTË NOVEL, EMMA BROWN

THE IRISH WESTERN EPIC: RODDY DOYLE REMAKES JOHN FORD – THE LAST ROUNDUP

THE AMERICAN WAKE: ALICE MCDERMOTT, CHILD OF MY HEART

BEING IRISH AND BEING NOTHING: THE ABYSS OF IDENTITY IN ALICE MCDERMOTT’S CHARMING BILLY AND EDWARD J. DELANEY’S FICTION

THE HEADACHE AND THE ASPIRIN: SEX AS DISEASE AND CURE IN SHERMAN ALEXIE’S THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD, COLUM MCCANN’S THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS, AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY STORIES

LOW SERIOUSNESS IN BETH LORDAN’S BUT COME YE BACK

THE DECAY OF LYING? ON LIFE SUPPORT IN WILLIAM KENNEDY’S ROSCOE AND THOMAS KELLY’S THE RACKETS

VISITING THE AMERICAN SIXTIES ON IRELAND: MARY GORDON’S PEARL

THE NECESSITY AND FUTILITY OF ROMANCE: THOMAS KELLY’S EMPIRE RISING

WHAT IS THE IRISH STORY? R.F. FOSTER’S THE IRISH STORY

THE FUNCTION OF FARCE AT THE PRESENT TIME

THE PATTERN OF READING IN THE DARK

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-64302-9

9786612643026

90-420-2994-3

OCLC:

648711447

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042029941 DOI