Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction......Page 26
3 The Aesthetics of Exile......Page 48
4 Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in Brian Moore’s Cold Heaven and John McGahern’s Amongst Women......Page 69
5 Versions of Banville: Versions of Modernism......Page 92
6 Figuring the Mother in Contemporary Irish Fiction......Page 113
7 Petrifying Time: Incest Narratives from Contemporary Ireland......Page 138
8 New Noises from the Woodshed: the Novels of Emma Donoghue......Page 158
9 ContamiNation: Patrick McCabe and Colm Tóibín’s Pathographies of the Republic......Page 181
10 ‘The Pose Arranged and Lingered Over’: Visualizing the ‘Troubles’......Page 205
11 Bourgeois Redemptions: the Fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson......Page 226
12 Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction......Page 245
Bibliography......Page 268
Index......Page 280