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Flann O'Brien: Problems With Authority
Paul Fagan
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Description for Flann O'Brien: Problems With Authority
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Borg, Ruben; Fagan, Paul. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
With its penchant for dissecting rehearsed attitudes and subverting expectations, Flann O'Brien's writing displays an uncanny knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the satirical energies and anti-authoritarian temperament invested in his style, Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority interrogates the author's clowning with linguistic, literary, legal, bureaucratic, political, economic, academic, religious and scientific powers in the sites of the popular, the modern and the traditional. By taking O'Brien's riotous clashes with diverse manifestations of authority as an entry point, the volume draws together disparate elements of the writer's work. Each chapter reflects on some aspect of his iconoclastic impulses; ... Read more
With its penchant for dissecting rehearsed attitudes and subverting expectations, Flann O'Brien's writing displays an uncanny knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the satirical energies and anti-authoritarian temperament invested in his style, Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority interrogates the author's clowning with linguistic, literary, legal, bureaucratic, political, economic, academic, religious and scientific powers in the sites of the popular, the modern and the traditional. By taking O'Brien's riotous clashes with diverse manifestations of authority as an entry point, the volume draws together disparate elements of the writer's work. Each chapter reflects on some aspect of his iconoclastic impulses; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782052302
SKU
V9781782052302
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About Paul Fagan
Paul Fagan,Department of English, University of Vienna, Austria, Ruben Borg, English Department, The Hebrew University,Israel and John McCourt, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Universita Roma, Italy
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