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UNINA9910451159403321 |
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Autore |
Hallissy Margaret |
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Titolo |
Reading Irish-American fiction [[electronic resource] ] : the hyphenated self / / by Margaret Hallissy |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36989-6 |
9786611369897 |
1-4039-8327-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2006.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - Irish-American authors - History and criticism |
Irish Americans - Intellectual life |
Irish Americans in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface : connections and separations -- Introduction : Irish types, American patterns -- 1. What Americans know and how they know it : song -- 2. What Americans know and how they know it : story -- 3. "Picture postcard Ireland" : Thomas Moran's The world I made for her -- 4. Naming the past : Lisa Carey's The mermaids singing -- 5. The pain of not knowing : Katharine Weber's The music lesson -- 6. Bringing paddies over : Alice McDermott's Charming Billy -- 7. The rage of the dying animal : Mary Gordon's The other side -- Conclusion : the journey. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book analyzes five novels, all published between 1989 and 1999, in which the main characters are 'hyphenated people': Americans who are ancestrally joined to, yet realistically separated from, the Irish. Hallissy explores why these characters think of themselves as Irish, though they have know little of Ireland or its people. |
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