Contemporary Irish Fiction

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction L.Harte & M.Parker The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction G.Smyth The Aesthetics of Exile G.O'Brien Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in Brian Moore's Cold Heaven and John McGahern's Amongst Women S.Holland Versions of Banville: Versions of Modernism J.McMinn Figuring the Mother in Contemporary Irish Fiction A.O.Weekes Petrifying Time: Incest Narratives from Contemporary Ireland C.St Peter New Noise from the Woodshed: The Novels of Emma Donoghue A.Quinn ContamiNation: Patrick McCabe and Colm Toibin's Pathologies of the Republic T.Herron 'The Pose Arranged and Lingered Over': Visualizing the 'Troubles' R.Haslam Bourgeois Redemptions: The Fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson R.Kirkland Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction L.Harte & M.Parker Bibliography Index

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