Edna O'Brien and the art of fiction /

Edna O'Brien and the art of fiction /

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Author / Creator:	O'Connor, Maureen, author.
Imprint:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2022]
Description:	xii, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contemporary Irish writers Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subject:	O'Brien, Edna -- Criticism and interpretation. O'Brien, Edna. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12620968

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ISBN:	9781684483358 1684483352 9781684483365 1684483360 9781684483372 9781684483389 9781684483396
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960-a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood--Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were condemned by church authorities and banned by the Irish government for their frank portrayals of sexual matters and the inner lives of women. Now an internationally acclaimed writer, O'Brien must be critically reassessed for a twenty-first century audience. Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. Drawing on O'Brien's fiction as well as archival material, and applying new theoretical approaches-including ecocritical and feminist new materialist readings-this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long anticipation of contemporary movements such as #metoo"--

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Call Number:	PR6065.B7 Z79 2022
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