Edna O'Brien New Critical Perspectives

by Laing, Kathryn; Mooney, Sinead; O'Connor, Maureen

• ISBN13: 9781904505204
• ISBN10: 1904505201
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Carysfort Press Limited

Summary

A new critical study of the literature of Edna O'Brien, prolific and lauded Irish writer.

Table of Contents

Reflections on a Connemara Dietrich	p. 12
Edna O'Brien, Irish dandy	p. 38
Red, un-read, and Edna : Ernest Gebler and Edna O'Brien	p. 54
Words apart : epigraphs in Edna O'Brien's novels	p. 68
From Eros to Agape : Edna O'Brien's epiphanies	p. 83
Sexuality, nation, and land in the postcolonial novels of Edna O'Brien and Jamaica Kincaid	p. 104
Outside history : relocation and dislocation in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation	p. 122
'Caring nothing for sacrifice' : the drama of solitude in Edna O'Brien's Iphigenia	p. 138
'Meaniacs' and martyrs : sadomasochistic desire in Edna O'Brien's The country girls trilogy	p. 151
Killing the bats : O'Brien, abjection, and the question of agency	p. 171
'Sacramental sleeves' : fashioning the female subject in the fiction of Edna O'Brien	p. 196
Famished : alienation and appetite in Edna O'Brien's early novels	p. 219
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