| Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour Contributor(s): Fagan, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1782054219 ISBN-13: 9781782054214 Publisher: Cork University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Humor - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2020934773 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 7.7" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 games and masculinist nationalism across a diverse range of genres, intertexts, contexts. |