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About this book
The essays collected in Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as well as igniting greater interest in the many unexplored areas of her considerable oeuvre.
The contributors who include new and established scholars in the field of O'Brien criticism, are Rebecca Pelan, Maureen O'Connor, Michelle Woods, Bertrand Cardin, Ann Norton, Eve Stoddard, Michael Harris, Loredana Salis, Shirley Peterson, Patricia Coughlan, SinƩad Mooney, and Mary Burke.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 |Reflections on a Connemara Dietrich
- 2 | Edna OāBrien, Irish Dandy
- 3 | Red, Un-Read, and Edna: Ernest GĆ©bler and Edna OāBrien
- 4 | Words Apart: Epigraphs in Edna OāBrienās Novels
- 5 | From Eros to Agape: Edna OāBrienās Epiphanies
- 6 | Sexuality, Nation, and Land in the Postcolonial Novels of Edna OāBrien and Jamaica Kincaid
- 7 | Outside History: Relocation and Dislocation in Edna OāBrienās House of Splendid Isolation
- 8 | āCaring Nothing for Sacrificeā: The Drama of Solitude in Edna OāBrienās Iphigenia
- 9 | āMeaniacsā and Martyrs: Sadomasochistic Desire in Edna OāBrienās The Country Girls Trilogy
- 10 | Killing the Bats: OāBrien, Abjection, and the Question of Agency
- 11 | āSacramental Sleevesā: Fashioning the Female Subject in the Fiction of Edna OāBrien
- 12 | Famished: Alienation and Appetite in Edna OāBrienās Early Novels
- Notes on Contributors
- Index