Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Liam Harte: Modern Irish Fiction: Renewing the Art of the New
- Part II: Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Legacies
- 2: Jarlath Killeen: Irish Gothic Fiction
- 3: Gerardine Meaney: Nation, Gender, and Genre: Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Development of Irish Fiction
- 4: James H. Murphy: Shame is the Spur: Novels by Irish Catholics, 1873-1922
- Part III: Irish Revivalism and Irish Modernism
- 5: Elizabeth Grubgeld: George Moore: Gender, Place, and Narrative
- 6: Gregory Castle: Revival Fiction: Proclaiming the Future
- 7: Gregory Dobbins: The Materialist Fabulist Dialectic: James Stephens, Eimar O'Duffy, and Magic Naturalism
- 8: Sam Slote: Epic Modernism: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
- 9: Brian Ó Conchubhair: The Parallax of Irish-Language Modernism, 1900-1940
- Part IV: After the Revival, In Joyce's Wake
- 10: Louis de Paor: Lethal in Two Languages: Narrative Form and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Flann O'Brien and Máirtín Ó Cadhain
- 11: Sinéad Mooney: Effing the Ineffable: Samuel Beckett's Narrators,
- 12: Allan Hepburn: Obliquities: Elizabeth Bowen and the Modern Short Story
- 13: Gerry Smyth: The Role and Representation of Betrayal in the Irish Short Story Since Dubliners
- 14: Heather Ingman: Arrows in Flight: Success and Failure in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction
- 15: Norman Vance: 'Proud of Our Wee Ulster'?: Writing Region and Identity in Ulster Fiction
- Part V: Fiction in the Modernizing Republic and the Troubled North
- 16: Jane Elizabeth Dougherty: Edna O'Brien and the Politics of Belatedness
- 17: Frank Shovlin: 'Half-Arsed Modern': John McGahern and the Failed State
- 18: Neil Murphy: John Banville's Fictions of Art
- 19: Caroline Magennis: Intimacy, Sex, and Violence in Northern Irish Women's Fiction
- Part VI: Irish Genre Fiction
- 20: Ian Campbell Ross: Irish Crime Fiction
- 21: Jack Fennell: Irish Science Fiction
- 22: Pádraic Whyte: House, Land, and Family Life: Children's Fiction and Irish Homes
- Part VII: Fact into Fiction, Fiction into Film
- 23: Melissa Fegan: The Great Famine in Fiction, 1901-2015
- 24: Laura O'Connor: Fictions of 1916 in the Story of Ireland
- 25: Kevin Rockett: Irish Literary Cinema
- Part VIII: Crossings and Crosscurrents
- 26: Tony Murray: The Fiction of the Irish in England
- 27: Stefanie Lehner: Devolutionary States: Crosscurrents in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction
- 28: Sally Barr Ebest: Sex, Violence, and Religion in the Irish-American Domestic Novel
- 29: Sinéad Moynihan: 'A Sly, Mid-Atlantic Appropriation': Ireland, the United States, and Transnational Fictions of Spain
- Part IX: Contemporary Irish Fiction
- 30: Derek Hand: Dublin in the Rare New Times
- 31: Fiona McCann: Northern Irish Fiction After the Troubles
- 32: Michael G. Cronin: 'Our Nameless Desires': The Erotics of Time and Space in Contemporary Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction
- 33: Pádraig Ó Siadhail: Contemporary Irish-Language Fiction
- 34: Susan Cahill: Post-Millennial Irish Fiction
- Part X: Critical Evaluations
- 35: Eve Patten: The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist
