National identities and imperfections in contemporary Irish literature : unbecoming Irishness / Luz Mar González-Arias, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González Arias, Luz Mar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

English fiction--Irish authors.

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

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Irish in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 248 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[London, United Kingdom] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017].

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Imperfect as a Site of Contestation in Contemporary Ireland / Luz Mar Gonzalez-Arias

Works Cited

pt. I The Tiger and Beyond: Political, Social and Literary Fissures

2. What Plenty Laid Bare! Ireland's Harsh Confrontation with Itself: 1999-2014 / Ciaran Benson

3. Satiric Insights into Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: The Case of Peter Cunningham's Capital Sins / Juan F. Elices

4. Understanding the Imperfect in John McGahern's First and Last Novels / Anita Morgan

pt. II Disruptions of Religion, Family and Marriage

5. Hard Times and Sibling Songs: Sibling Relations in Contemporary Irish Literature / Patricia Coughlan

6. Psychological Resilience in Emma Donoghue's Room / Marisol Morales Ladron

7. The Fallen Sex Revisited: Imperfect Celibacy in Mary Rose Callaghan's A Bit of a Scandal / Auxiliadora Perez-Vides

pt. III Ex-Centric Bodies and Disquieting Spaces

8. Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoon / Rui Carvalho Homem

9. Imperfection as a Chance: Matrixial Borderspaces in Anne Enright / Hedwig Schwall

10. Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies out of Place in Emer Martin's Baby Zero / Aida Rosende Perez

11. Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetry / Lucy Collins

pt. IV Stereotypes and the Distortion of Irishness

12. Irish Drinking Culture on the Screen / Rosa Gonzalez-Casademont

13. Treading the Boards? Be Sure to Put on the Right Brogues! The Actor's Search for the Perfect Irish Accent / Shane Walshe

pt. V Unbecoming Irish Literature: The Inside Gaze

14. `Absolutely Imperfect': In Conversation with Lia Mills / Luz Mar Gonzalez-Arias

Works Cited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137476296

113747629X

OCLC:

975485771