William Trevor

Revaluations
Herausgeber: Delaney, Paul; Parker, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language, an author who has produced fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays. Since the publication of his first novel in 1964, Trevor has either been a nominee for or a recipient of almost every major fiction prize. In many respects, he is that rare thing: a 'writer's writer', acclaimed by reviewers, and loved by generations of readers. Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished, international scholars, the collection offers readings that are innovative, rigorous and timely. Rather than portraying Trevor simply as an 'Irish' or a 'traditional realist' writer, it locates his work within the contexts of both Irish and English cultures, stressing its transnational and contemporary compass. As well as re-examining his core concerns with individuality and the family, cultural and national identity, these essays extend the scope of current scholarship, scrutinising the author's prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on the choices a person makes. The essays also address his affecting assessment of the intoxication of and need for love, and the breakdown in interpersonal relationships. William Trevor: Revaluations provides a much-needed interrogation of such issues, as well as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087905
• ISBN-10: 0719087902
• Artikelnr.: 39594606

Autorenporträt

Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing in English at Trinity College, Dublin Michael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paul Delaney and Michael Parker Part One 1. Learnt by heart:
William Trevor and reading - Hermione Lee 2. In another country: aspects of
Trevor's England - George O'Brien 3. 'Compassion thrown to the winds':
William Trevor and postcolonial London - C.L. Innes 4. 'The battlefield has
never quietened': political violence in the fiction of William Trevor -
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 5. William Trevor's screen fictions: 'No interest.
Not suitable for treatment' - Lance Pettitt Part Two 6. The Ireland that we
dreamed of?: 'The Ballroom of Romance' - Tina O'Toole 7. 'Moments and
subtleties and shadows of grey': reflections on the narrative mode of Fools
of Fortune Michael O'Neill 8. 'Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence
in the Garden Derek Hand 9. The tragedy of the return of history: 'Lost
Ground' Jennifer M. Jeffers 10. The power of withholding: politics, gender
and narrative technique in Felicia's Journey - Michael Parker 11. '... as
if she were a symbol of something ...': The Story of Lucy Gault - Tom
Herron 12. 'The art of the glimpse': Cheating at Canasta Paul Delaney 13.
Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer - Heidi
Hansson Bibliography and filmography Index