242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard’s texts.
The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture, and it will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and... Read more
Introduction: Towards an Evaluation of Paul Howard 1. Seeing Ireland Differently: The Theoretical Lens 2. Ireland’s Satirical Tradition and Howard’s Place in it 3. The Best Years of Our Lives – School and College 4. Married in the Celtic Tiger 5. States of Denial 6. From Prosperity to Austerity 7. Bouncing Back 8. Ross Grows Up (?) 9. A Family Man
Biography
Eugene O’Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory and of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series.
