Title: The contemporary Irish novel
Subtitle: critical readings
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, History and criticism, In literature, English fiction, Irish authors, English fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Ireland, intellectual life, Ireland, in literature
Places: Ireland, Northern Ireland
Time periods: 20th century