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Author Pierse, Michael, author

Title Writing Ireland's working class : Dublin after O'Casey / Michael Pierse
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages)
Contents The shadow of Seán : O'Casey, commitment and the literature of Dublin's working class -- Angry young men : class injuries and masculinity -- From rocking the cradle to rocking the system : writing working-class women -- Industry and the city : workers in struggle -- Prison stories : writing Dublin at its limits -- Return of the oppressed : sexual repression, culture and class -- Revising the revolution : Roddy Doyle's A star called Henry, historiography, politics and proletarian consciousness
Summary As a social other, Ireland's urban working class inhabits a 'non-place' in the national narrative, a place beset by galling levels of poverty and low social mobility. Its exclusion is not just social and economic, but cultural as well. Working-class Dublin in particular elicits little good press, and less in terms of academic commentary or cultural appreciation, so where and how does it appear in literature? Exploring the fiction and plays of this marginalised community after Sèn O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies scholarship, charting alternative directions for academic research and unearthing submerged narratives in the history of Irish culture. Most of the works examined have received little or no critical commentary to date, yet this book makes a compelling case for their centrality to the history and appreciation of Irish literature. From O'Casey to Roddy Doyle, a rich tapestry of urban life is illuminated and explored, which presents a robust challenge to stereotyped and staid views of Irish life and literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-333) and index
Notes English
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Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History and criticism
Working class in literature.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature -- Irish authors
Literature
Working class in literature
Englisch
Literatur
Dublin Motiv
Arbeiter Motiv
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Englische Literatur -- Irland -- Motiv -- Arbeiter.
Arbeiter -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur -- Irland.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Motiv.
Soziale Klasse.
SUBJECT Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature
Subject Ireland -- Dublin
Irland
Dublin (stad)
Irland.
Dublin (Bistum, Irland)
Dublin (Motiv)
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230299351
0230299350