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The Remains of Protestantism in Maurice Leitch’s Fiction

The Remains of Protestantism in Maurice Leitch’s Fiction
The Remains of Protestantism in Maurice Leitch’s Fiction
This collection of fourteen substantial essays has been designed to map the landscape of Irish fiction since 1960, and to assess the extraordinary literary achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers, North and South of the border, over the last forty years.
As this volume demonstrates, Irish novelists and short story writers since 1960 have both continued and challenged conventional notions of Irish fiction; and they have contributed, in stimulating and inventive style, to the continuous examination of Irish identity, culture and politics, while making their fiction resonate with wide cultural, intellectual and human interest.
The book includes essays which focus on major individual writers - Samuel Beckett, Brian Moore, Jennifer Johnston, Maurice Leitch, John McGahern, Patrick McGinley and John Banville. There are also general essays of a more explicitly comparative and thematic nature covering such topics as the impact of modernisation on Irish fiction, the contemporary ‘Big House’ novel, the Protestant imagination, the ‘Troubles’ Novel, the importance of the past, childhood and women’s narratives, constructions of masculinity, and women short story writers. By closely analysing key texts, exploring the relationships between texts, and also between texts and their social, cultural and political contexts, and by examining significant themes and preoccupations, these essays offer valuation insight into the variety and complexity of modern Irish fiction from a range of viewpoints.
0861404270
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247-261
Colin Smythe
Sloan, Barry
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Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer
Sloan, Barry
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Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer

Sloan, Barry (2006) The Remains of Protestantism in Maurice Leitch’s Fiction. In, Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer (ed.) Irish Fiction Since the 1960's. (Ulster Editions & Monographs, 13) Gerrards Cross. Colin Smythe, pp. 247-261.

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This collection of fourteen substantial essays has been designed to map the landscape of Irish fiction since 1960, and to assess the extraordinary literary achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers, North and South of the border, over the last forty years.
As this volume demonstrates, Irish novelists and short story writers since 1960 have both continued and challenged conventional notions of Irish fiction; and they have contributed, in stimulating and inventive style, to the continuous examination of Irish identity, culture and politics, while making their fiction resonate with wide cultural, intellectual and human interest.
The book includes essays which focus on major individual writers - Samuel Beckett, Brian Moore, Jennifer Johnston, Maurice Leitch, John McGahern, Patrick McGinley and John Banville. There are also general essays of a more explicitly comparative and thematic nature covering such topics as the impact of modernisation on Irish fiction, the contemporary ‘Big House’ novel, the Protestant imagination, the ‘Troubles’ Novel, the importance of the past, childhood and women’s narratives, constructions of masculinity, and women short story writers. By closely analysing key texts, exploring the relationships between texts, and also between texts and their social, cultural and political contexts, and by examining significant themes and preoccupations, these essays offer valuation insight into the variety and complexity of modern Irish fiction from a range of viewpoints.

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Published date: November 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 41507
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41507
ISBN: 0861404270
PURE UUID: 0151e302-6766-4e72-9e51-13e811539f80

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Date deposited: 29 Sep 2006
Last modified: 15 Dec 2023 17:30

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Author: Barry Sloan
Editor: Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

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