{"product_id":"girl-in-blue-book-ann-rinaldi-9780439676465","title":"Girl in Blue","description":"Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, \u003ci\u003eFlann O Brien: Contesting Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground in Brian O Nolan scholarship (he wrote his novels under the name of Flann O Brien) by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Challenging the narrative that Flann O Brien wrote two good novels and then retired to the inferior medium of journalism (as Myles na gCopaleen), the collection engages with overlooked shorter, theatrical, and non-fiction works and columns ( John Duffy s Brother, The Martyr s Crown, Two in One ) alongside \u003ci\u003eAt Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Beal Bocht\u003c\/i\u003e. The depth and consistency of O Nolan s comic inspiration that emerges from this scholarly engagement with his broader body of work underlines both the imperative and opportunity of reassessing O Brien s literary legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the critical standard of O Brien as a provincial writer, these essays reveal his writing as a space that uniquely complicates the old lines between stay-at-home conservatism and international experimentalism. Renegotiating O Brien s place in the European Avant-Garde alongside tensions closer to home Republicanism, the Gaelic tradition, the Dublin literary scene the collection reveals as outdated prejudice the dismissal of his talent as a matter of localized interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, the contributors excavate O Nolan s \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e as fertile territory for a broad range of critical perspectives by confronting some of the more complex ideological positions tested in his writing. Employing perspectives from genetic criticism and cultural materialism to post-modernism and deconstruction, the essays gathered in this volume address with new critical rigor the author s gender politics, his language politics, his parodies of nationalism, his ideology of science, and his treatment of the theme of justice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49752213258513,"sku":"CIN0439676460A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49937207853329,"sku":"CIN0439676460G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50271364350225,"sku":"CIN0439676460VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0439676460.jpg?v=1750878973","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/girl-in-blue-buch-ann-rinaldi-9780439676465","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}