2009 Press Releases
Flann O’Brien – CUP Publication
21.05.2009
Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (author: Keith Hopper, University of Oxford) has been published by Cork University Press
21.05.2009
Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (author: Keith Hopper, University of Oxford) has been published by Cork University Press
This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O’Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. It identifies The Third Policeman as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest – and most exciting – examples of post-modernist fiction.
“The highest praise I can give a critical book is that it makes me want to read or re-read the works discussed. Keith Hopper’s book on Flann O’Brien does that. He makes reading Flann O’Brien sound like an exciting and productive thing to do” (J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine)
Further information about the book is available on http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
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“The highest praise I can give a critical book is that it makes me want to read or re-read the works discussed. Keith Hopper’s book on Flann O’Brien does that. He makes reading Flann O’Brien sound like an exciting and productive thing to do” (J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine)
Further information about the book is available on http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
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