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Overview"For the past 30 years, the so-called ""Troubles"" thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Two essays on crime fiction by Walter Benjamin and Berthold Brecht appear here for the first time in English translation. By demonstrating the relevance of these theorists as well as other key European thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Slavoj Zizek to his interdisciplinary study of Irish culture and the crime novel, Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary, Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins, Tom Clancy, Gerald Seymour, Colin Bateman, and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron Kelly , Professor Martin Stannard , Professor Greg WalkerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780754638391ISBN 10: 0754638391 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 28 May 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'Kelly's monograph is to be welcomed [...] for subjecting the formal and ideological dimensions of this variegated literary corpus to systematic, theorized investigation. This absorbing [...] study of the 'Troubles' thriller genre significantly expands the critical frameworks within which contemporary Northern Irish fiction can be read.' Modern Language Review 'Kelly's monograph is to be welcomed [...] for subjecting the formal and ideological dimensions of this variegated literary corpus to systematic, theorized investigation. This absorbing [...] study of the 'Troubles' thriller genre significantly expands the critical frameworks within which contemporary Northern Irish fiction can be read.' Modern Language Review Author InformationAaron Kelly is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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