Conversations With Edna O'brien - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1617038725 ISBN 13 : 9781617038723

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Synopsis

"Who's Afraid of Edna O'Brien?" asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O'Brien (b. 1932) saw her early works, starting in 1960 with The Country Girls, banned and burned in Ireland, but often read in secret. Her contemporary work continues to spark debates on the rigors and challenges of Catholic conservatism and the struggle for women to make a place for themselves in the world without anxiety and guilt. The raw nerve of emotion at the heart of her lyrical prose provokes readers, challenges politicians, and proves difficult for critics to place her. In these interviews, O'Brien finds her own critical voice and moves interviewers away from a focus on her life as the "once infamous Edna" toward a focus on her works. Parallels between Edna O'Brien and her literary muse and mentor, James Joyce, are often cited in interviews such as Phillip Roth's description of The Country Girls as "rural Dubliners." While Joyce is the centerpiece of O'Brien's literary pantheon, allusions to writers such as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, and Woolf become a medium for her critical voice. Conversations with contemporary writers Phillip Roth and Glenn Patterson reveal Edna O'Brien's sense of herself as a contemporary writer. The final interview included here, with BBC personality William Crawley at Queen's University Belfast, is a synthesis of her acceptance and fame as an Irish writer and an Irish woman and an affirmation of her literary authority. Alice Hughes Kersnowski, San Antonio, Texas, is a professor of English at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. She is coeditor of Conversations with Henry Miller (University Press of Mississippi).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alice Hughes Kersnowski is professor of English at St. Mary's University. She is editor of Conversations with Edna O'Brien and coeditor (with Frank L. Kersnowski) of Conversations with Henry Miller, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617038725
• ISBN 13: 9781617038723
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Kersnowski Alice Hughes
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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