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03549aam a2200289Ia 4500 001 F99644F412F711E4A193BF90DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140724010045 008 100914s2010 ne b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2010282556 020 $a 9789042029934 (pbk.) 020 $a 9042029935 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)640095706 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d DLC $d NLGGC $d OHX $d BWX $d GSU $d CDX $d IAY $d LGG $d UBY $d DEBSZ $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d SILO 100 1 $a Hagan, Edward A. $q (Edward Alphonsus), $d 1947- 245 10 $a Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill : $b farce in contemporary Irish and Irish-American narratives / $c Edward A. Hagan. 260 $a Amsterdam ; $b Rodopi, $c 2010. 300 $a vi, 329 p. ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Costerus ; $v new ser., 183 500 $a SAU copy: Gift for the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-320) and index. 505 00 $t What is the Irish story? R.F. Foster's The Irish Story -- Postcript: The function of farce at the present time -- Appendix: The pattern of Reading in the Dark. $g Part Five: An historian's need to define the Irish story -- $t Defining the object for struggle: epistemology in the age of autobiography -Frank McCourts, Angela's Ashes and Seamus Dane, Reading in the Dark -- Belfast and South Boston: cut off from serious consideration - Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn and Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls -- The void of Irish identity: Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody -- $g Part Two :The writers strike back : using irony to subvert the fascination of cultural studies -- $t Tim O'Brien's ironic aesthetic: faith and the nature of a 'true' story (co-authored with John Briggs) -- The delusion of cultural studies: Colm ToÌibiÌn, The Blackwater Lightship -- $g Part Three: Serious and not-so-serious farce in contemporary Irish fiction -- $t Picaresque farce: Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey -- Icons for the new age: the transvestite in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto and the ballet dancer in Colum McCann's Dancer -- Home isn't there any more: Willam Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault and John McGahern's By the Lake -- Transforming nostalgia for the Victorian: Clare Boylan's Charlotte BronteÌ novel, Emma Brown -- The Irish Western epic: Roddy Dyle remakes John Ford - The Last Roundup -- $g Part Four: Farce in contemporary Irish-American fiction : symptom of the triviality of American society -- $t The American wake: Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart -- Being Irish and being nothing: the abyss of identity in Alice McDermott's Charming Billy and Edward J. Delaney's fiction -- The headache and the aspirin: sex as disease and cure in Sherman Alexie's The Toughtest Indian in the World, Colum McCann's This Side of Brightness, and the other contemporary stories -- Low seriousness in Beth Lordan's But Come Ye Back -- The decay of lying? On life support in William Kennedy's Roscoe and Thomas Kelly's The Rackets -- Visiting the American Sixties on Ireland: Mary Gordon's Pearl -- The necessity and futility of romance: Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising -- $g Part Five: An historian's need to define the Irish story -- $t What is the Irish story? R.F. Foster's The Irish Story -- Postcript: The function of farce at the present time -- Appendix: The pattern of Reading in the Dark. 830 0 $a Costerus ; $v new ser., v. 183. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118071644.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150514025139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F99644F412F711E4A193BF90DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search