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Title:

The comic tradition in Irish women writers / edited by Theresa O'Connor.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

188 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Humorous stories, English--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English wit and humor--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Ireland--History.
Comic, The, in literature.
Ireland--In literature.

Other Authors:

O'Connor, Theresa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What foremothers? / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- The voices of Maria Edgeworth's comedy / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Hyacinth and the wise man : Lady Gregory's comic enterprise / Mary Lowe-Evans -- "Humor with a Gender" : Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M. / James M. Cahalan -- The crumbling fortress : Molly Keane's comedies of Anglo-Irish manners / Rachael Jane Lynch -- Iris Murdoch's moral comedy / Flora Alexander -- (S)he was too scrupulous always : Edna O'Brien and the comic tradition / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- History, gender, and the post-colonial condition : Julia O'Faolain's comic rewriting of Finnegans Wake / Theresa O'Connor -- Lashings of the mother tongue : Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's anarchic laughter / Mary O'Connor -- Joyce and Boylan's Black Baby : "swiftly and silently" / Jean-Louis Giovannangeli.

ISBN:

9780813014579 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0813014573 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34875831

LCCN:

96022957

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)