Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature

From Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and McNamee
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60285-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGlynn, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Poor Mouth * James Joyce and the Urban Periphery: Towards a Working Class Modernism * 'Make out It_s Not Unnatural at All': Janice Galloway's Mother Tongue * Barrytown Irish: Location, Language, and Class in Roddy Doyle's early novels * 'Ye_ve No to Wander:' James Kelman's Vernacular Spaces * Eoin McNamee's Local Language * The Poor Mouth Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Mary M. McGlynn is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.