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Fine Meshwork - (Irish Studies) by Dan O'Brien (Paperback)
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- In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction.
- About the Author: Dan O'Brien is currently an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin.
- 312 Pages
- Literary Criticism, European
- Series Name: Irish Studies
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Book Synopsis
In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply not only to O'Brien's writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others', including, most illuminatingly, Roth's.
Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Roth and O'Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In Fine Meshwork, Dan O'Brien investigates the shared concerns of these two authors, now regarded as literary icons in their home countries. He traces their fifty-year literary friendship and the striking parallels in their books and reception, bringing together what, at first glance, seem to be quite disparate milieus: the largely feminist and Irish scholarship on O'Brien with Jewish and American perspectives on Roth. In doing so, and in considering them in a transnational context, he argues that the intertwined nature of their writing symbolizes the far-ranging symbiosis between Irish literature and its American--particularly Jewish American--counterpart.Review Quotes
Well-researched and well-illustrated, this book is original and compelling, a valuable addition to the field of Philip Roth studies that will certainly encourage readers of Roth to pursue Edna O'Brien's work and to reevaluate his Irish characters.-- "Philip Roth Studies"
Exceptional, original . . . O'Brien takes on a fascinating topic about which very little has been written and, in so doing, makes a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of books in the emergent field of Irish-Jewish studies.
-- "Stephen Watt, Indiana University"O'Brien's Fine Meshwork interlaces intricately the works, lives and preoccupations of two (variously) misunderstood contemporary writers so as to ask questions that go beyond considerations of nation and biography. O'Brien's carefully and playfully written study, with its bold thesis of flirtatious intertextuality, will do much to advance their cause, while offering new and exciting frameworks against which to consider Irish and Jewish-American literature both as separate entities and in relation to transnational and transatlantic studies.-- "Tara Stubbs, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education & Kellogg College, Oxford"
About the Author
Dan O'Brien is currently an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin. He is a coeditor of Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 7.1 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 312
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Irish Studies
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Street Date: February 28, 2020
TCIN: 94422719
UPC: 9780815636397
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-6238
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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