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  1. Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill
    farce in contemporary Irish and Irish-American narratives
    Author: Hagan, Edward A.
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    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,... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
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    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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9042029935; 1282643029; 9789042029941; 9781282643024; 9789042029934
    Series: Costerus new series ; 183
    Costerus New Ser.
    Subjects: Irish-American literature; Farce; Humorous stories, Irish; Farce ; History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 329 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Introduction. The Donkeys and the Narrowbacks: Contemporary Circus Animals; Part One Memoirs - Defining Where We Are Now; 1. Defining the Object for Struggle: Epistemology in the Age of Autobiography - Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes and Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark ; 2. Belfast and South Boston: Cut off from Serious Consideration - Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn and Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls; 3. The Void of Irish Identity: Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody

    Part Two The Writers Strike Back: Using Irony to Subvert the Fascination of Cultural Studies4. Tim O'Brien's Ironic Aesthetic: Faith and the Nature of a "True" Story (co-authored with John Briggs); 5. The Delusion of Cultural Studies: Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship; Part Three Serious and Not-So-Serious Farce in Contemporary Irish Fiction; 6. Picaresque Farce: Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey; 7. Icons for the New Age: The Transvestite in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto and the Ballet Dancer in Colum McCann's Dancer

    8. Home Isn't There Any More: William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault and John McGahern's By the Lake9. Transforming Nostalgia for the Victorian: Clare Boylan's Charlotte Brontë Novel, Emma Brown; 10. The Irish Western Epic: Roddy Doyle Remakes John Ford - The Last Roundup; Part Four Farce in Contemporary Irish-American Fiction: Symptom of the Triviality of American Society; 11. The American Wake: Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart; 12. Being Irish and Being Nothing: The Abyss of Identity in Alice McDermott's Charming Billy and Edward J. Delaney's Fiction

    13. 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 Stories14. Low Seriousness in Beth Lordan's But Come Ye Back; 15. The Decay of Lying? On Life Support in William Kennedy's Roscoe and Thomas Kelly's The Rackets; 16. Visiting the American Sixties on Ireland: Mary Gordon's Pearl; 17. The Necessity and Futility of Romance: Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising; Part Five An Historian's Need to Define the Irish Story; 18. What Is the Irish Story? R.F. Foster's The Irish Story

    Postscript The Function of Farce at the Present TimeAppendix: The Pattern of Reading in the Dark; Bibliography; Index