Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature

From Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and McNamee

M. McGlynn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-60285-4 (ISBN)

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This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman.

Mary M. McGlynn is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

The Poor Mouth * James Joyce and the Urban Periphery: Towards a Working Class Modernism * 'Make out It_s Not Unnatural at All': Janice Galloway's Mother Tongue * Barrytown Irish: Location, Language, and Class in Roddy Doyle's early novels * 'Ye_ve No to Wander:' James Kelman's Vernacular Spaces * Eoin McNamee's Local Language * The Poor Mouth Revisited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2008
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Zusatzinfo	X, 236 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-230-60285-1 / 0230602851
ISBN-13	978-0-230-60285-4 / 9780230602854
Zustand	Neuware