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Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist

Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist


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About the Book

Flann O'Brien's "The Third Policeman", completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, "At Swim Two Birds" (1939). By 1940 O'Brien was confronted with two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats' "Celtic Twilight" and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With "The Third Policeman" O'Brien forges a powerful synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he chooses marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism. 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.

About the Author :
Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies for Oxford University s Department for Continuing Education and for St Clare s International College, Oxford. He is general editor of the Ireland into Film series (2001-2007).

Review :
'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 'Hopper makes his point with enviable ingenuity and pervasive force. He wears his stupendous erudition and expertise lightly and writes in a style that is sheer delight. [ - ] Hopper has managed that rarest of feats: a scientific study from which both the expert and the layman can profit copiously'. Rudiger Imhof, Irish Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781859184479
  • Publisher: Cork University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cork University Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist
  • ISBN-10: 1859184472
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm


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