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"This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists and histories of subgenres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels."--Jacket.
6) God: stories
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A collection of stories on God. In Made in Heaven by John Updike a non-believer finds himself attracted to believers, while in Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor an estranged husband has himself tattooed with the picture of Jesus to get into the good books of his religious wife.
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This book surveys the landscape of the Irish novel from the Act of Union to the end of the Edwardian era. From Maria Edgeworth's satire to Bernard Shaw's subversiveness, from the hauntings of C.R. Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer to those of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, from national tale to novel of ideas, thirty representative works are selected for discussion. Focusing on the problematic condition of the protagonist, each discussion...
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"Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction offers an examination of Irish short stories written over the last eighty years that have treated the Troubles, Ireland's intractable conflict that arose out of its relationship to England. Read chronologically, the stories provide insightful perspectives on the Troubles, from the 1916 Easter rising to the recent sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Nearly every Irish short-story writer during this...
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