The contemporary Irish novel
Subtitle: critical readings
By: Linden Peach.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life; Northern Ireland -- In literature; Ireland -- In literature
Description: "This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers." "The Contemporary Irish Novel addresses themes such as ghosts and haunting, mimicry, authority and subversion, the relocation and reinscription of identity, the mother figure, parent-child relations, madness, masculinity, self-harm, sexuality, domestic violence, fetishism and postmodernity. Drawing on a range of critical approaches including postcolonial, gender and psychoanalytic theory, Peach explores and celebrates the diversity of Irish fiction and suggests that the boundary between literature and theory is as permeable as that between Ireland and Northern Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.