num_pages: 290
description: Writer, lecturer, and Irish studies scholar Marie Arndt addresses a variety of issues relating to the importance and imaginative legacy of Irish writer Sean O'Faolain (born 1900). Themes addressed include O'Faolain as a product of the colonial periphery; post-independence backlash during the 1930s; the public debates of the 1940s; his search for an intellectual and liberal Catholic Ireland during the 1950s; and surrender to imagination of the past from the 1960s to the 1980s. Each theme is discussed in depth, followed by a section focusing on his fiction of the period, with concluding remarks providing a summary of each chapter. Double-spaced text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: A Critical Study of Sean O'Faolain's Life and Work
titlecomplete: A Critical Study of Sean O'Faolain's Life and Work (Studies in Irish Literature)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr