Patrick McCabe's Ireland : The butcher boy, Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood / edited by Jennifer Keating.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keating, Jennifer, 1980- editor.

Series:

Guft va gū ; volume 23.

Dialogue ; volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCabe, Pat, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.

McCabe, Pat.

McCabe, Pat, 1955-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xvii, 182 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

Summary:

Few contemporary Irish writers have been more attuned to the historical influence of partition on Ireland's culture and literary representation than Patrick McCabe. In the recent context of Brexit, his work produced in the late nineteen nineties and early two-thousands carries considerable poignancy, especially in relation to the Catholic Church, gender roles and persistence of a history of violence in Ireland. This volume attends to three novels, The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood as an emblematic representation of Ireland in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.0Contributors are: K. Brisley Brennan, Aisling Cormack, Flore Coulouma, Luke Gibbons, Lindsay Haney, Barbara Hoffmann, Jennifer Keating, James F. Knapp, Colin MacCabe, Kristina Varade.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / Jennifer Keating

2 Attack of the Killer Clones: Attachment and Trauma in Patrick McCabe's Films and Fiction p. 10 / Luke Gibbons

3 The Social Fantastic: Graphic Violence in Patrick McCabe's Fiction p. 27 / K. Brisley Brennan

4 A Portrait of the Artist as a Madman p. 45 / Barbara M. Hoffmann

5 Specters of a Border Town: Irish History and Violence in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy p. 65 / Aisling B. Cormack

6 Exploring Home from Stranger Shores: the Irish Experience in Patrick McCabe's Mondo Desperado p. 93 / Flore Coulouma

7 Violence, Peace, and Priests in Adapting Breakfast on Pluto p. 110 / Lindsay Haney

8 Possible Worlds in Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood p. 125 / James F. Knapp

9 'It Ain't Like the Old Place Anymore': Contemporary Ireland and the Postmodern, Fragmented Individual in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe p. 140 / Kristina Varade

10 'Sinking the Pail into the Self-Conscious,' Bubble Gum Ballads and Other Conversational Circles: Patrick McCabe, London 2015 p. 164 / Jennifer Keating.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004388994

9004388990

OCLC:

1056198873