Flann O'Brien : problems with authority

Flann O'Brien : problems with authority /

Recent years have witnessed a series of shifts in the reception of Brian O'Nolan's work, with the publication of collected short stories and dramatic texts and a systematic critical reappraisal of once marginal titles in the author's canon. The vast collections of O'Nolan's...

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Other Authors: Borg, Ruben (Editor), Fagan, Paul (Editor), McCourt, John, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cork : Cork University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
O'Brien, Flann, > 1911-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
O'Brien, Flann, > 1911-1966.
O'Brien, Flann > 1911-1966
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I `neither popular nor profitable': O'Nolan vs. The Plain People
  • 1. `irreverence moving towards the blasphemous': Brian O'Nolan, Blather and Irish popular culture / Carol Taaffe
  • 2. `No more drunk, truculent, witty, Celtic, dark, desperate, amorous paddies!': Brian O'Nolan and the Irish stereotype / Maebh Long
  • 3. Lamhd laftar and bad language: bilingual cognition in Cruiskeen Lawn / Maria Kager
  • 4. `the half-said thing': Cruiskeen Lawn, Japan and the Second World War / Catherine Flynn
  • 5. Physical comedy and the comedy of physics in The Third Policeman, The Dalkey Archive and Cruiskeen Lawn / Katherine Ebury
  • pt. II Mixed inks: O'Nolan vs. his peers
  • 6. `widening out the mind': Flann O'Brien's `wide mind' between Joyce's `mental life' and Beckett's `deep within' / Dirk Van Hulle
  • 7. Phwat's in a nam?: Brian O'Nolan as a Late Revivalist / Ronan Crowley
  • 8. Fantastic economies: Flann O'Brien and James Stephens / R.W. Maslen
  • 9. The ideal and the ironic: incongruous Irelands in An Beal Bocht, No Laughing Matter and Ciaran O Nuallain's Oige an Dearthar / Ian O. Caoimh
  • 10. More `gravid' than gravitas: Collopy, Fahrt and the Pope in Rome / John McCourt
  • pt. III Gross impieties: O'Nolan vs. the sacred texts
  • 11. `a scholar manque'?: further notes on Brian O Nuallain's engagement with Early Irish literature / Louis de Paor
  • 12. In defence of `gap-worded' stories: Brian O'Nolan on authority, reading and writing / Alana Gillespie
  • 13. Reading Flann with Paul: modernism and the trope of conversion / Ruben Borg
  • 14. The Dalkey Archive: a Menippean satire against authority / Dieter Fuchs
  • 15. `walking forever on falling ground': closure, hypertext and the textures of possibility in The Third Policeman / Tamara Radak.

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