Understanding contemporary Irish fiction and drama / / Margaret Hallissy

• Autore: Hallissy Margaret
• Pubblicazione: Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Disciplina: 822/.92099415
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism; English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding contemporary Irish fiction and drama
• ISBN: 1-61117-663-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798597603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Understanding modern European and Latin American literature.