02869nam 2200553 450 991079859760332120200520144314.01-61117-663-8(CKB)3710000000735746(PQKBManifestationID)16464789(PQKBWorkID)15008481(PQKB)20818913(MiAaPQ)EBC4558285(OCoLC)949922246(MdBmJHUP)muse54574(Au-PeEL)EBL4558285(CaPaEBR)ebr11228216(CaONFJC)MIL934167(PPN)232349231(EXLCZ)99371000000073574620160711h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrUnderstanding contemporary Irish fiction and drama /Margaret HallissyColumbia, South Carolina :The University of South Carolina Press,2016.©20161 online resource (217 pages)Understanding Modern European and Latin American LiteratureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-61117-662-X Includes bibliographical references and index."In Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, Margaret Hallissy examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. Included are early figures John Millington Synge and James Joyce; dramatists Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Tom Murphy; and prize-winning contemporary fiction writers such as Edna OBrien, Joseph OConnor, William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, and Colum McCann. Each chapter focuses on one significant representative piece of contemporary Irish fiction or drama. Hallissy begins by filling in its cultural, historical, and literary background and identifying a key theme or key event in the Irish past essential to understanding the work. She then analyzes earlier literary compositions with the same theme and through a close reading of the contemporary work provides context for that background"--Provided by publisher.Understanding modern European and Latin American literature.English fictionIrish authorsHistory and criticismEnglish dramaIrish authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fictionIrish authorsHistory and criticism.English dramaIrish authorsHistory and criticism.822/.92099415Hallissy Margaret1474328MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798597603321Understanding contemporary Irish fiction and drama3687939UNINA