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William Trevor
Revaluations|
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 16.05.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526112385 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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<p>William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language: the author of fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays.<br><br>Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished international scholars, this volume shines a critical light on Trevor’s core concerns with individuality and the family, and cultural and national identity, extending significantly the scope of current scholarship. Essays scrutinise the author’s prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on choices his characters make. <br><br>William Trevor: Revaluations is a groundbreaking collection of essays, and will also be seen as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.</p>
Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor
<p>Introduction Paul Delaney and Michael Parker<br>Part One<br>1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading – Hermione Lee <br>2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England – George O’Brien <br>3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London – C.L. Innes<br>4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor – Elmer Kennedy-Andrews<br>5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest. Not suitable for treatment’ – Lance Pettitt<br>Part Two<br>6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ – Tina O’Toole <br>7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune Michael O'Neill <br>8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden Derek Hand <br>9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost Ground’ Jennifer M. Jeffers <br>10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey – Michael Parker <br>11. ‘... as if she were a symbol of something ...’: The Story of Lucy Gault – Tom Herron <br>12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta Paul Delaney <br>13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer – Heidi Hansson <br>Bibliography and filmography <br>Index</p>
<p>Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing in English at Trinity College, Dublin<br><br>Michael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire</p>
<p>William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language, an author who has produced fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays. Since the publication of his first novel in 1964, Trevor has either been a nominee for or a recipient of almost every major fiction prize. In many respects, he is that rare thing: a ‘writer’s writer’, acclaimed by reviewers, and loved by generations of readers.<br><br>Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished, international scholars, the collection offers readings that are innovative, rigorous and timely. Rather than portraying Trevor simply as an ‘Irish’ or a ‘traditional realist’ writer, it locates his work within the contexts of both Irish and English cultures, stressing its transnational and contemporary compass. <br><br>As well as re-examining his core concerns with individuality and the family, cultural and national identity, these essays extend the scope of current scholarship, scrutinising the author’s prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on the choices a person makes. The essays also address his affecting assessment of the intoxication of and need for love, and the breakdown in interpersonal relationships. William Trevor: Revaluations provides a much-needed interrogation of such issues, as well as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.</p>
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