Documentation on «Kaleidoscope of Postmodernism»: Irish Narration from the 1970s to the 1990s- «I Write, Therefore I Am ...»

ISBN-13: 9783631398920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 146 str.

Klein, Jürgen

Opis

Irish Postmodernism is a still unfinished project. The variety of critical approaches to its literature reflects its complexity. This study queries representative current discussions, emphasising aspects like nationhood, postcolonialism, genre and gender and offers an insight in the latest interpretations of John Banville s so-called tetralogy (Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, The Newton Letter, Mefisto). Different facets of postmodern theory are applied to an exemplary analysis of three novelistic works (Banville s Eclipse, Toibin s The Blackwater Lightship, Madden s One by One in the Darkness). A survey of opinions and reviews published on novels by John Banville, Seamus Deane, Dermot Healy, Deirdre Madden and Colm Toibin discussed in Kaleidoscope of Postmodernism rounds the study off."

Spis treści

Contents : Representative studies of Irish Postmodernism - Current discussion of John Banville's 'tetralogy' - Postmodern interpretations of three novels - Survey of opinions and reviews.

O autorze

The Author: Andrea Beck is lecturer at Greifswald University and teacher in Munich. She obtained her doctorate in Munich in 1987 and her habilitation in Greifswald in 2000. She is author of books, essays and articles.