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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction (Hardcover)
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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
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Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in
1960-a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and
pious Irish girlhood -Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her
native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were
condemned by church authorities and banned by the Irish government
for their frank portrayals of sexual matters and the inner lives of
women. Now an internationally acclaimed writer, O'Brien must be
critically reassessed for a twenty-first century audience. Edna
O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective
consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling
and most prolific contemporary authors. Drawing on O'Brien's
fiction as well as archival material, and applying new theoretical
approaches-including ecocritical and feminist new materialist
readings-this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways
O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the
natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long
anticipation of contemporary movements such as #metoo.
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