Ripley Bogle

Author : Robert McLiam Wilson
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559704243
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ripley Bogle written by Robert McLiam Wilson and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man without a future flees Northern Ireland to find that England is no panacea. Although there is less violence and more work, he is among foreigners, they don't like him and he doesn't like them.

Author : Robert McLiam Wilson
Publisher : Arcade
ISBN 13 : 9781611458909
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ripley Bogle written by Robert McLiam Wilson and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripley Bogle, one of the most memorable Irish characters since Leopold Bloom roamed Dublin, is a self-proclaimed bum, an excoriating and expectorating Irish expatriate from Belfast, and a Cambridge dropout. Penniless but unbowed, he wanders the streets of London, treating the reader to the ruminations of his teeming, romping imagination. Here lies the mystery and wonder of this book: How could anyone of Bogle’s prodigious intelligence and powers of perception end up in vagabondage? Winner of the Irish Book Award, Ripley Bogle spreads before us a fabulous beggar’s banquet: a running commentary of bawdy brilliance and dyspeptic hilarity. No cow is too sacred for Bogle. After acquainting us with his birth and family (“the usual cast from subhuman Gaelic scumbuckets”), he relives his past (“the bathetic dribble of error and reparation”), describes his first experiences with love (“the silken clock that backs the witless levitation of the penis”), and analyzes his Irishness (“crap promoted by Americans and professors of English literature”). Though he gnaws at the fringes of society, Bogle’s keen mind can skewer its fat heart. Chain-smoking his way around London, young Bogle looks to stitch together the pieces of his ragged life—to forgive himself his sins and to find a place of warmth within his own dark thoughts. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669665
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head's study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.

Author : Robert McLiam Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788811620167
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ripley Bogle written by Robert McLiam Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ciaran Ross
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042028289
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sub-versions written by Ciaran Ross and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Swift's repulsive shit-flinging Yahoos to Beckett's dying but never quite dead moribunds, Irish literature has long been perceived as being synonymous with subversion and all forms of subversiveness. But what constitutes a subversive text or a subversive writer in twenty-first-century Ireland? The essays in this volume set out to redefine and rethink the subversive potential of modern Irish literature. Crossing three central genres, one common denominator running through these essays whether dealing with canonical writers like Yeats, Beckett and Flann O'Brien, or lesser known contemporary writers like Sebastian Barry or Robert McLiam Wilson, is the continual questioning of Irish identity - Irishness - going from its colonial paradigm and stereotype of the subaltern in MacGill, to its uneasy implications for gender representation in the contemporary novel and the contemporary drama. A subsidiary theme inextricably linked to the identity problematic is that of exile and its radical heritage for all Irish writing irrespective of its different genres. Sub-Versions offers a cross-cultural and trans-national response to the expanding interest in Irish and postcolonial studies by bringing together specialists from different national cultures and scholarly contexts - Ireland, Britain, France and Central Europe. The order of the essays is by genre. This study is aimed both at the general literary reader and anyone particularly interested in Irish Studies.

Author : Irene Gilsenan Nordin
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115587
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefinitions of Irish Identity written by Irene Gilsenan Nordin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays aims to provide new insights into the debate on postnationalism in Ireland from the perspective of narrative writing.

Author : Robert McLiam Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783895616303
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ripley Bogle written by Robert McLiam Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kersti Tarien Powell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826415967
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Fiction written by Kersti Tarien Powell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-10-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Irish Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major themes and issues. Signposts for further study within the genre. A summary of the most important criticism in the field. A glossary of terms. An annotated, critical reading list. This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied in Irish Fiction include: Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, John and Michael Banim, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton, Charles Lever, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Somerville, Violet Martin, George Moore, James Stephens, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Francis Stuart, Brian Moore, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Jennifer Johnston, Roddy Doyle, John McGahern, John Banville, Eoin McNamee, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Emma Donoghue>

Author : J. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137095547
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century written by J. Jeffers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion.

Author : Caroline Magennis
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034301107
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons of Ulster written by Caroline Magennis and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sons of Ulster' explores the representation of masculinity within a number of Northern Irish novels written since the mid 1990s, focusing on works by Eoin McNamee, Glenn Patterson & Robert McLiam Wilson. The book sets out to disrupt notions of a hegemonic Irish masculinity based on violent conflict & sectarian rhetoric.