{"product_id":"flann-o-brien-ruben-borg-9781782050766","title":"Flann O Brien: Contesting Legacies","description":"Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, \u003ci\u003eFlann O Brien: Contesting Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground in Brian O Nolan scholarship (he wrote his novels under the name of Flann O Brien) by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Challenging the narrative that Flann O Brien wrote two good novels and then retired to the inferior medium of journalism (as Myles na gCopaleen), the collection engages with overlooked shorter, theatrical, and non-fiction works and columns ( John Duffy s Brother, The Martyr s Crown, Two in One ) alongside \u003ci\u003eAt Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Beal Bocht\u003c\/i\u003e. The depth and consistency of O Nolan s comic inspiration that emerges from this scholarly engagement with his broader body of work underlines both the imperative and opportunity of reassessing O Brien s literary legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the critical standard of O Brien as a provincial writer, these essays reveal his writing as a space that uniquely complicates the old lines between stay-at-home conservatism and international experimentalism. Renegotiating O Brien s place in the European Avant-Garde alongside tensions closer to home Republicanism, the Gaelic tradition, the Dublin literary scene the collection reveals as outdated prejudice the dismissal of his talent as a matter of localized interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, the contributors excavate O Nolan s \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e as fertile territory for a broad range of critical perspectives by confronting some of the more complex ideological positions tested in his writing. Employing perspectives from genetic criticism and cultural materialism to post-modernism and deconstruction, the essays gathered in this volume address with new critical rigor the author s gender politics, his language politics, his parodies of nationalism, his ideology of science, and his treatment of the theme of justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruben Borg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1782050760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781782050766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cork University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Ruben Borg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46070314696959,"sku":"9781782050766","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3c78163-b5bb-44d5-8b45-283b3b1a045a.jpg?v=1724242894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flann-o-brien-ruben-borg-9781782050766","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}