As Mirrors Are Lonely

A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel
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ISBN: 978-1-4438-6527-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten

The Irish novel has demonstrated an ability to sample other forms and influences, to improvise and evolve in the light of changing circumstances. Peter Guy’s new study helps investigate the way in which Irish writers since the sixties have responded to these influences, re-examining their work through the theory of the French theorist Jacques Lacan.

Focusing on the novelists John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick in a simultaneous reading, and applying a psychoanalytical theory which centers in particular on gender and family relations, this new study also covers a number of other complex issues, issues which span the claustrophobic and repressive atmosphere of the 1950s to the secular ahistorical Ireland of today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guy, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Guy, Peter
Peter Guy is an alumni of NUI Galway, and is currently Associate Professor of English Literature at Shantou University. He has previously held posts at the University of Nottingham and Chuo University, Tokyo.

Peter Guy is an alumni of NUI Galway, and is currently Associate Professor of English Literature at Shantou University. He has previously held posts at the University of Nottingham and Chuo University, Tokyo.