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Reading Paul Howard - The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly
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Reading Paul Howard - The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly
Series: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
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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 will use the
thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and
Jacques Derrida to critique this division, building a theoretical
platform from which to examine the significance of Howard’s work
as an Irish comic and satirical writer. Addressing both the style
and the substance of his work, this text locates him in a tradition
of Irish satirical writing that dates back to the Gaelic bards, and
includes writers like Swift, Wilde, Flann O’Brien and Joyce.
Through textual and contextual analysis, this book makes the case
for Howard as a significant and original voice in Irish writing,
whose fusion of the three traditional types of satire (Horatian,
Juvenalian and Menippean), has created a parallel Ireland that
shines a satirical light on its real counterpart. As Freud
suggests, humour is a way of accessing aspects of the psyche that
normative discourses cannot enunciate, and Howard, through the
confessional voice of Ross, offers a fictive truth on twenty years
of Irish society, a truth that is not accessed by discourse in the
public sphere or by what could be termed literary or high cultural
fiction.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Studies in Irish Literature |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Eugene O'Brien
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-64535-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-367-64535-1 |
Barcode: |
9780367645359 |
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