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    Flann O'Brien & Modernism by Murphet, Julian; McDonald, Ronan; Morrell, Sascha;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 25 September 2014
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781623568504
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages248 pages
    • Size 215x139 mm
    • Weight 333 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8 halftone illus
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    Long description:

    Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends.

    The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann O'Brien & Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms; the ethics and paradoxes of naming; parody and homage; lies and deception; theatricality; sexuality; technology and transport; and the inevitable matter of drink and intoxication.

    Taken together, these specific topics construct a mosaic image of O'Brien as an exemplary modernist auteur, abreast of all the most salient philosophical and technical concerns affecting literary production in the period immediately before and after World War Two.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements

    Contributors

    Introduction
    Rónán McDonald, University of New South Wales, Australia and Julian Murphet, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 1 Making Evil, with Flann O'Brien
    Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 2 Mythomaniac modernism: lying and bullshit in Flann O'Brien
    John Attridge, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 3 'The outward accidents of illusion': O'Brien and the Theatrical
    Stefan Solomon, University of Sydney, Australia

    Chapter 4 The Ghost of 'Poor Jimmy Joyce': A Portrait of the Artist as a Reluctant Modernist
    Stephen Abblitt, La Trobe University, Australia


    Chapter 5 'Do You Know What I'm Going to Tell You?': Flann O'Brien, Risibility and the Anxiety of Influence
    David Kelly, University of Sydney, Australia


    Chapter 6 An Béal Bocht, Translation and the Proper Name
    Maebh Long, University of the South Pacific, Fiji


    Chapter 7 Ploughmen Without Land: Flann O'Brien and Patrick Kavanagh
    Joseph Brooker, University of London, United Kingdom

    Chapter 8 Flann O'Brien's Ulysses: Marginalia and the Modernist Mind
    Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium


    Chapter 9 'Truth is an Odd Number': Flann O'Brien and Infinite Imperfection
    Baylee Brits, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 10 'An astonishing parade of nullity': Nihilism in The Third Policeman
    Rónán McDonald, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 11 Flann O'Brien and Modern Character
    Julian Murphet, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Chapter 12 'No unauthorized boozing': Flann O'Brien and the Thirsty Muse
    Sam Dickson

    Chapter 13 Soft drink, hard drink, and literary (re)production in Flann O'Brien and Frank Moorhouse
    Sascha Morrell, University of New England, Australia

    Chapter 14 Flann O'Brien's Aestho-Autogamy
    Mark Steven, University of New South Wales, Australia


    Chapter 15 Modernist Wheelmen
    Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia

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