Flann O’Brien Gallows humour / Paul Fagan, Ruben Borg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borg, Ruben, editor.

Fagan, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political and social views.

O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966--Political and social views.

O'Brien, Flann.

O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Cork University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. The organising theme of Gallows humour focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author's canon. These innovative analyses explore the place of biopolitics in O'Brien's modernist experimentation and popular writing through reflections on his handling of the thematics of violence, justice, capital punishment, eugenics, prosthetics, skin, prostitution, syphilis, rape, reproduction, illness, auto-immune deficiency, abjection, drinking, Gaelic games and masculinist nationalism across a diverse range of genres, intertexts, contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Editors' introduction

Part I. Body Politics

1. Everybody Here Is under Arrest: Translation and politics in Cruiskeen Lawn

2. 'nothing in the world would save me from the gallows': O'Nolan and the death penalty

3. Carnival and Class Consciousness: Bakhtin and the Free State in At Swim-Two-Birds

4. Spare-Time Physical Activities: Cruiskeen Lawn, the GAA and the Irish modernist body

5. The Soft Misogyny of Good Intentions: The Mother and Child Scheme, Cruiskeen Lawn and The Hard Life

Part II: Failing Bodies

6. 'Where you bin, bud?' Myles na gCopaleen's disappearing act

7. 'the situation had become deplorably fluid': Alcohol, alchemy and Brian O'Nolan's metamorphoses

8. 'the tattered cloak of his perished skin': The body as costume in 'Two in One', At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman

9. 'Veni, V.D., Vici': Flann O'Brien, sexual health and the literature of exhaustion

10. Abject Bodies: Brian O'Nolan and immunology

Part III: Bodies of Writing

11. Reading the Regional Body: Disability, prosthetics and Irish literary tradition in The Third Policeman and Molloy

12. Law and Violence in Ferguson's Congal, Yeats's The Herne's Egg and O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds

13. 'sprakin sea Djoytsch?' Brian Ó Nualláin's Bhark i bPrágrais

14. Flann O'Brien, the Absurd and the Authenticity of Death

15. 'the essential inherent interior essence': The Third Policeman and early modern ontologies

16. Origin, Iterability and Violence in The Third Policeman

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782054238

1782054235

9781782054221

1782054227

9781782054214

1782054219

OCLC:

1198970097