Flann O'Brien : a portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist / Keith Hopper
Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #320487
ISBN: 1859180426
Physical description: 292 pages; 23 cm. Notes:
Portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index. Contents:
Beyond the Celtic twilight zone: shamanism, post-modernism and formalism -- The two towers: the filty modern tide meets the Celtic toilet -- 'Is it a bicycle?': censorship, sex and the metonymic code -- Character building: the role of the self-conscious narrator -- This is not a pipe: frame-breaking strategies -- Paradise lost, paradise regained: Flann O'Brien and the dialogic imagination -- Relative worlds: Kit Marlowe meets Philip Marlowe in the fourth dimension. Subjects: O'Brien, Flann 1911-1966 Criticism and interpretation.
O'Brien, Flann 1911-1966. Third policeman. O'Brien, Flann 1911-1966. O'Brien, Flann 1911-1966; Postmodernism (Literature) Ireland. Experimental fiction, English Irish authors History and criticism. Genre: Bibliography.
Price: €25.00