William Trevor

Revaluations
Herausgeber: Delaney, Paul; Parker, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993573
• ISBN-10: 1784993573
• Artikelnr.: 44751066

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