SAU copy: Gift for the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-320) and index.
Contents:
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. Part Five: An historian's need to define the Irish story -- 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 -- Part Two :The writers strike back : using irony to subvert the fascination of cultural studies -- 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 Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship -- Part Three: Serious and not-so-serious farce in contemporary Irish fiction -- 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 Brontë novel, Emma Brown -- The Irish Western epic: Roddy Dyle remakes John Ford - The Last Roundup -- Part Four: Farce in contemporary Irish-American fiction : symptom of the triviality of American society -- 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 -- Part Five: An historian's need to define the Irish story -- 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.
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