Flann O'Brien
Gallows Humour
The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. The organising theme of Gallows humour focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author's canon. These innovative analyses explore the place of biopolitics in O'Brien's modernist experimentation and popular writing through reflections on his handling of the thematics of violence, justice, capital punishment, eugenics, prosthetics, skin, prostitution, syphilis, rape, reproduction, illness, auto-immune deficiency, abjection, drinking, Gaelic game…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Fagan, Paul (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78205-423-8
- EAN: 9781782054238
- Produktnummer: 34957979
- Verlag: Cork University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'998 KB
Über den Autor
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to Gallows humour, he co-edited two volumes on Flann O'Brien for Cork University Press: Contesting Legacies (with Paul Fagan and Werner Huber: 2014), and Problems with Authority (with Paul Fagan and John McCourt: 2017)
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