Anne Enright
By: edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill
Series: Visions and revisions -- 8
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780716530800; 9780716530817
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: This is a study of Anne Enright's work, providing a variety of perspectives on one of the most important Irish writers of this generation. The book includes an extensive interview with Enright and a comprehensive bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: An interview with Anne Enright, August 2009 / Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill; title: Distorting mirrors and unsettling snapshots : Anne Enright's short fiction / Elke D'hoker; title: Beyond local Ireland in The wig my father wore / Heidi Hansson; title: 'Now the blood is in the room' : the spectral feminine in the work of Anne Enright / Anne Mulhall; title: 'Dreaming of upholstered breasts', or, How to find your way back home : dislocation in What are you like? / Susan Cahill; title: 'Without a blink of her lovely eye' : The pleasure of Eliza Lynch and visionary scepticism / Patricia Coughlan; title: 'History is only biological' : history, bodies, and national identity in The gathering and 'Switzerland' / Kristin Ewins; title: Waking the dead : Antigone, Ismene, and Anner Enright's narrators in mourning / Gerardine Meaney; title: What am I like? : writing the body and the self / Matthew Ryan; title: Anne Enright's machines : modernity, technology, and Irish culture / Claire Bracken; title: Relationships with 'the real' in the work of Anne Enright / Hedwig Schwall.