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Assembling Flann O'Brien
- Title
- Assembling Flann O'Brien / Maebh Long.
- Author
- Long, Maebh.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-2435 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 248 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Flann O'Brien - also known as Brian O'Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland's modern authors. Assembling Flann O'Brien explores the author's innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century's most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O'Brien offers a detailed study of O'Brien's five major novels - including At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman - as well as his plays, short stories, journalistic output and unpublished archival material. The book presents new theoretical perspectives on his works, exploring his compelling engagements with questions of the proper name, the archive, law, and desire, and the problems of identity, language, sexuality and censorship which acutely troubled Ireland's new state. Combining a wide range of contemporary theory with a sensitivity to the cultural and political context in which the author wrote, Maebh Long opens up entirely new aspects of Flann O'Brien's writings, and explores the ingenious and the problematic within his oeuvre"--
- "A complete guide to the writings of Flann O'Brien, including his major novels, plays and journalism"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Fragments of Palimpsests -- 2. Driven to Repeat -- 3. Ireland on Trial -- 4. A Hard Life for Women -- 5. Archival Fantasies.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-2435
- ISBN
- 9781441187055 (hardback)
- 1441187057 (hardback)
- 9781441190208 (paperback)
- 1441190201 (paperback)
- 9781441160300 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
- 1441160302 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781441113351 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
- 1441113355 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013033641
- OCLC
- 856971821
- Author
- Long, Maebh.
- Title
- Assembling Flann O'Brien / Maebh Long.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-2435