Flann O'Brien - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (Paperback, new ed of 2nd revised ed)

Flann O Brien s "The Third Policeman," completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being "too fantastic," and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, "At Swim Two Birds" (1939). By 1940 O Brien was confronted with two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats s "Celtic Twilight" and the problematic complexities of Joyce s modernism. With "The Third Policeman," O Brien forges a powerful synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he chooses marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. It identifies "The Third Policeman" as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest and most exciting examples of post-modernist fiction."

General

Imprint:	Cork University Press
Country of origin:	Ireland
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	Keith Hopper
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	292
Edition:	new ed of 2nd revised ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-85918-487-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-85918-487-1
Barcode:	9781859184875

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