Edna O'Brien
'New Critical Perspectives'
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2020
X, 254 pages
978-1-78874-959-6 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as well as igniting greater interest in the many unexplored areas of her considerable oeuvre.
The contributors who include new and established scholars in the field of O'Brien criticism, are Rebecca Pelan, Maureen O'Connor, Michelle Woods, Bertrand Cardin, Ann Norton, Eve Stoddard, Michael Harris, Loredana Salis, Shirley Peterson, Patricia Coughlan, Sinéad Mooney, and Mary Burke.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 |Reflections on a Connemara Dietrich
- 2 | Edna O'Brien, Irish Dandy
- 3 | Red, Un-Read, and Edna: Ernest Gébler and Edna O'Brien
- 4 | Words Apart: Epigraphs in Edna O'Brien's Novels
- 5 | From Eros to Agape: Edna O'Brien's Epiphanies
- 6 | Sexuality, Nation, and Land in the Postcolonial Novels of Edna O'Brien and Jamaica Kincaid
- 7 | Outside History: Relocation and Dislocation in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation
- 8 | 'Caring Nothing for Sacrifice': The Drama of Solitude in Edna O'Brien's Iphigenia
- 9 | 'Meaniacs' and Martyrs: Sadomasochistic Desire in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy
- 10 | Killing the Bats: O'Brien, Abjection, and the Question of Agency
- 11 | 'Sacramental Sleeves': Fashioning the Female Subject in the Fiction of Edna O'Brien
- 12 | Famished: Alienation and Appetite in Edna O'Brien's Early Novels
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
