Gerry Smyth

The Judas Kiss

Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 215mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781526127105
• ISBN-10: 1526127105
• Artikelnr.: 49394150

Autorenporträt

Gerry Smyth is a Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Betrayal and the Irish Novel Part I 1. A short history of betrayal 2. Déirdre and the Sons of Usnach: a case study in Irish betrayal Part II 3. 'Trust not appearances'
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) 4. the landscape of betrayal
Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer (1925) 5. a spy in the house of love
Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day (1949) 6. Jesus or Judas?
Francis Stuart's Black List, Section H (1971) 7. 'Cangled both to treachery'
Eugene McCabe's Death and Nightingales (1993) 8. 'A family
a whole fucking country
drowning in shame'
Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007) Index