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Reading Colm Tóibín / edited by Paul Delaney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Dublin : Liffey Press, c2008Description: xvi, 223 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781905785414
  • 1905785410
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Reading Colm Tóibín.DDC classification:
  • 828/.914 22
Contents:
Introduction / Paul Delaney -- "A strange and insistent protagonist" : Tóibín and Irish history / R. F. Foster -- The story of the republic : Tóibín's generation / Gerald Dawe -- Uncertain terms, unstable sands : The Heather Blazing / Liam Harte -- "The difficult work of remembering" : Tóibín and cultural memory / Oona Frawley -- The Sign of the Cross : travels in Tóibín's Europe / Eve Patten -- The poet Tóibín : cadence, incantation, imitation / Christina Hunt Mahony -- "This particular genie" : the elusive gay male body in Tóibín's novels / Eibhear Walshe -- Dreaming about the dead : The Master / Stephen Matterson -- A battle for space : Mothers and Sons / John McCourt -- After Oedipus? Mothers and sons in the fiction of Colm Tóibín / Anne Fogarty -- Appendix: An interview with Colm Tóibín / Fintan O'Toole.
Summary: Colm Tóibín is a critically acclaimed, internationally lauded, and extremely popular writer who has written successfully across a variety of forms over the past twenty years. However, for all of his acclaim, there is an extraordinary dearth of criticism on this prominent Irish writer. To date no full-length studies of Tóibín's work have been published in Ireland or overseas, and only a few short essays have appeared in specialist academic journals and generla surveys of recent Irish literature. This collection...provides an illuminating exploration of many of the themes and concerns which have engaged Tóibín ever since the publication of his first book, Walking along the border (1987)....The book also includes a lengthy interview of Tóibín conducted by his former Magill associate, Fintan O'Toole.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223).

Introduction / Paul Delaney -- "A strange and insistent protagonist" : Tóibín and Irish history / R. F. Foster -- The story of the republic : Tóibín's generation / Gerald Dawe -- Uncertain terms, unstable sands : The Heather Blazing / Liam Harte -- "The difficult work of remembering" : Tóibín and cultural memory / Oona Frawley -- The Sign of the Cross : travels in Tóibín's Europe / Eve Patten -- The poet Tóibín : cadence, incantation, imitation / Christina Hunt Mahony -- "This particular genie" : the elusive gay male body in Tóibín's novels / Eibhear Walshe -- Dreaming about the dead : The Master / Stephen Matterson -- A battle for space : Mothers and Sons / John McCourt -- After Oedipus? Mothers and sons in the fiction of Colm Tóibín / Anne Fogarty -- Appendix: An interview with Colm Tóibín / Fintan O'Toole.

Colm Tóibín is a critically acclaimed, internationally lauded, and extremely popular writer who has written successfully across a variety of forms over the past twenty years. However, for all of his acclaim, there is an extraordinary dearth of criticism on this prominent Irish writer. To date no full-length studies of Tóibín's work have been published in Ireland or overseas, and only a few short essays have appeared in specialist academic journals and generla surveys of recent Irish literature. This collection...provides an illuminating exploration of many of the themes and concerns which have engaged Tóibín ever since the publication of his first book, Walking along the border (1987)....The book also includes a lengthy interview of Tóibín conducted by his former Magill associate, Fintan O'Toole.--From publisher description.