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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienA Casebook
Edited by Thomas C. Foster
This casebook investigates Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. Thomas C. Foster provides an overview and introduction to the novel. M. Keith Booker’s "Postmodern and/or Postcolonial?: The Politics of At Swim-Two-Birds" focuses on O'Brien's use of "popular" culture, including a mobilization of both American popular culture and Irish mythology. Monique Gallagher writes on "Frontier Instability in At Swim-Two-Birds," in which she discusses O'Brien's destabilizing strategies in the novel. Kelly Anspaugh’s “Agonizing with Joyce” examines the Oedipal conflicts with Joyce that inform the novel’s intertextuality.
DetailsAdditional Materials(pdf 382 KB)An Introduction by Thomas C. Foster (pdf 518 KB) by M. Keith Booker (pdf 678 KB) by Monique Gallagher (pdf 354 KB) by Kelly Anspaugh (pdf 49 KB) (pdf 138 KB) WE ALSO SUGGEST
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