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Author:   Ruben Borg ,  Ruben Borg ,  Paul Fagan
Publisher:   Cork University Press
Imprint:   Cork University Press
ISBN:  

9781782052302

ISBN 10:   1782052305
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   04 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Editors' introduction RUBEN BORG, PAUL FAGAN, JOHN MCCOURTPART I 'neither popular nor profitable': O'Nolan vs. The Plain People'irreverence moving towards the blasphemous': Brian O'Nolan, Blather and Irish popular culture CAROL TAAFFE'No more drunk, truculent, witty, celtic, dark, desperate, amorous paddies!': Brian O'Nolan and the Irish stereotype MAEBH LONGLamhd laftar and bad language: bilingual cognition in Cruiskeen Lawn MARIA KAGER'the half-said thing': Cruiskeen Lawn, Japan and the Second World War CATHERINE FLYNNPhysical comedy and the comedy of physics in The Third Policeman, The Dalkey Archive and Cruiskeen Lawn KATHERINE EBURYPART II. Mixed inks: O'Nolan vs. his peers'widening out the mind': Flann O'Brien's 'wide mind' between Joyce's 'mental life' and Beckett's 'deep within' DIRK VAN HULLEPhwat's in a nam?: Brian O'Nolan as a Late Revivalist RONAN CROWLEYFantastic economies: Flann O'Brien and James Stephens R. W. MASLENThe ideal and the ironic: incongruous Irelands in An Beal Bocht, No Laughing Matter and Ciaran O Nuallain's Oige an Dearthar IAN O CAOIMHMore 'gravid' than gravitas: Collopy, Fahrt and the Pope in Rome JOHN MCCOURTPART III. Gross impieties: O'Nolan vs. the sacred texts'a scholar manque'?: further notes on Brian O Nuallain's engagement with Early Irish literature LOUIS DE PAORIn defence of 'gap-worded' stories: Brian O'Nolan on authority, reading and writing ALANA GILLESPIEReading Flann with Paul: modernism and the trope of conversion RUBEN BORGThe Dalkey Archive: a Menippean satire against authority DIETER FUCHS'walking forever on falling ground': closure, hypertext and the textures of possibility in The Third Policeman TAMARA RADAK

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Paul Fagan,Department of English, University of Vienna, Austria, Ruben Borg, English Department, The Hebrew University,Israel and John McCourt, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Universita Roma, Italy

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