Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; L.Harte & M.Parker The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction; G.Smyth The Aesthetics of Exile; G.O'Brien Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in Brian Moore's Cold Heaven and John McGahern's Amongst Women; S.Holland Versions of Banville: Versions of Modernism; J.McMinn Figuring the Mother in Contemporary Irish Fiction; A.O.Weekes Petrifying Time: Incest Narratives from Contemporary Ireland; C.St Peter New Noise from the Woodshed: The Novels of Emma Donoghue; A.Quinn ContamiNation: Patrick McCabe and Colm Toibin's Pathologies of the Republic; T.Herron 'The Pose Arranged and Lingered Over': Visualizing the 'Troubles'; R.Haslam Bourgeois Redemptions: The Fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson; R.Kirkland Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction; L.Harte & M.Parker Bibliography Index