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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Constantine , Prof Eve Patten (Professor of English, Trinity College, Dublin) , Dr Paul Delaney (Associate Professor of English, Trinity College, Dublin)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780192855558ISBN 10: 0192855557 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 23 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsDublin Tales is home to a wide range of historical and present-day perspectives on the place...Eve Patten and Paul Delaney...navigate in a beautifully written introduction an awareness of the kitschy use of fictional landmarks for attracting visitors, while producing a real map of Dublin as a literary metropolis. * Catherine Toal, Irish Times * Dublin's many faces brought to life in eclectic collection of stories...Delaney and Patten's clear vision and painstaking selection of work creates a Janus-faced Dublin, sometimes wayward and sometimes constant, occasionally brutal and occasionally compassionate, above all capable of flicking from the familiar to the terrifying in a heartbeat. * Martina Devlin, Irish Independent * An engrossing, often moving, and very powerful anthology which really gets to the heart of its subject. I've enjoyed all of the 'Tales' collection from OUP, and this is a worthy addition - highly recommended! * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings * A curated anthology of short fiction celebrates the city of Dublin as literary setting and muse. * The Booklist * An attractive and useful book... a lot of pleasure to be had here. * Shiny New Books * Dublin Tales is home to a wide range of historical and present-day perspectives on the place...Eve Patten and Paul Delaney...navigate in a beautifully written introduction an awareness of the kitschy use of fictional landmarks for attracting visitors, while producing a real map of Dublin as a literary metropolis. * Catherine Toal, Irish Times * Author InformationEve Patten is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she is a Fellow. A scholar in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and cultural history, she worked for the British Council before joining Trinity as a lecturer in 1996. She specializes in the modern Irish and British novel and was a regular reviewer of new Irish fiction for the Irish Times and other publications for several years. Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a scholar of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish writing, with particular focus in post-independence Irish literary culture and short fiction. He has written widely on Irish literature in peer-reviewed journals and publications. He joined Trinity as a lecturer in 2001, having completed his PhD at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent (Canterbury) where he was a Chevening Scholar. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |