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COM.ONIXSUITE.9781564785626 03 01 Dalkey Archive Press 01 GCOI 15647100281790 02 1564785629 03 9781564785626 15 9781564785626 BC 1 A01 Murphy, Neil Neil Murphy Neil Murphy has previously taught at the University of Ulster and the American University of Beirut, and is currently Associate Professor of contemporary literature at NTU, Singapore. He is the author of several books on Irish fiction and contemporary literature and has published numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary Irish fiction, on postmodernism, and on Aidan Higgins. 01 eng 330 00 330 03 03 0 03 24 Internet Ireland 24 Internet Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Theory 24 Internet Poetics 01 <p>Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the appearance of his first book, <i>Felo De Se</i>. Authors like Annie Proulx, John Banville, Derek Mahon, Dermot Healy, and Higgins himself, represented by a previously uncollected essay, offer a variety of critical and creative commentaries, while scholars such as Keith Hopper, Peter van de Kamp, George O’Brien, and Gerry Dukes contribute exciting new perspectives on all aspects of Higgins’s writing, including his radio plays, his critical work, and the Harold Pinter film adaptation of <i>Langrishe, Go Down</i>. <i>Langrishe</i> too is revisited, while convincing cases are made for the major significance of later novels such as <i>Bornholm Night-Ferry</i> and <i>Lions of the Grunewald</i>, as well as Higgins’s unorthodox trilogy of autobiographies. This collection confirms the enduring significance of Aidan Higgins as one of the major writers of our time, and also offers testament that Higgins’s work is being rediscovered by a new generation of critics and writers.</p> 02 Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the... 23 01 http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/titles/15647100281790/extras/4D073575-1D09-67E0-43566F789349E935.html 04 03 72 01 http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/titles/15647100281790/images/15647100281790L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/titles/15647100281790/images/15647100281790S.jpg http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100281790 Dalkey Archive Press 01 Dalkey Archive Press 20100101 W. W. Norton & Company 01 WORLD 02 Y 20110101 20 20100101 01 02 29.95 USD