Edna O'Brien and the art of fiction

Edna O'Brien and the art of fiction /

"Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960-a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood--Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were condemned by church aut...

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Main Author: O'Connor, Maureen, 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2022
Series:Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects:
O'Brien, Edna > Criticism and interpretation.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Editor
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Edna O'Brien, Leader of the Banned
  • 1. Anti-Oedipal Desires
  • 2. The Liberating Sadomasochism of Things
  • 3. The Ungrammatical Sublime
  • 4. Otherworldly Possessions
  • 5. Myth and Mutation
  • 6. Disorder, Dirt, and Death
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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