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Out of history : essays on the writings of Sebastian Barry / edited by Christina Hunt Mahony.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press ; Dublin : Carysfort Press, c2006Description: viii, 262 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813214599
  • 9780813214597
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Out of history.DDC classification:
  • 828/.91409 22
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Christina Hunt Mahony -- From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry / Peter Denman -- Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry's Juvenile Fiction / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne -- 'To have a father is always big news': Theme and Structure in The Engine of Owl-Light / Bruce Stewart -- 'Everyman's Story is the Whisper of God': Sacred and Secular in Barry's Dramaturgy / David Cregan -- Children of the Light amid the Risky Dancers: Barry's Naïfs and the Poetry of Humanism / Christina Hunt Mahony -- 'All the Long Traditions': Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro / John Wilson Foster -- Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford -- Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barry's The Only True History of Lizzie Finn / Anthony Roche -- Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne / Nicholas Grene -- 'Something of us will remain': Sebastian Barry and Irish History / Roy Foster -- Hinterland: The Public Becomes Private / Colm Tóibín -- 'In the dank margins of things': Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire / Claire Gleitman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index.

Introduction / Christina Hunt Mahony -- From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry / Peter Denman -- Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry's Juvenile Fiction / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne -- 'To have a father is always big news': Theme and Structure in The Engine of Owl-Light / Bruce Stewart -- 'Everyman's Story is the Whisper of God': Sacred and Secular in Barry's Dramaturgy / David Cregan -- Children of the Light amid the Risky Dancers: Barry's Naïfs and the Poetry of Humanism / Christina Hunt Mahony -- 'All the Long Traditions': Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro / John Wilson Foster -- Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford -- Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barry's The Only True History of Lizzie Finn / Anthony Roche -- Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne / Nicholas Grene -- 'Something of us will remain': Sebastian Barry and Irish History / Roy Foster -- Hinterland: The Public Becomes Private / Colm Tóibín -- 'In the dank margins of things': Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire / Claire Gleitman.