Download or read book Kate O Brien and the Fiction of Identity written by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate O'Brien's work is now widely considered canonical in the English language, and the author herself an icon for Ireland seeking to reinvent itself. O'Brien's novel Mary Lavelle, banned upon publication in 1936, is a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its wider popularity with readers. This book reexamines Mary Lavelle, exploring its role in the modernist canon and its importance to political and queer activism. The novel's biographical and autobiographical experimentation is of particular note. Through the lens of this crucial novel, the oeuvre of Kate O'Brien is recontextualized and reassessed.
Download or read book Kate O Brien and the Fiction of Identity written by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate O'Brien's work is now widely considered canonical in the English language, and the author herself an icon for Ireland seeking to reinvent itself. O'Brien's novel Mary Lavelle, banned upon publication in 1936, is a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its wider popularity with readers. This book reexamines Mary Lavelle, exploring its role in the modernist canon and its importance to political and queer activism. The novel's biographical and autobiographical experimentation is of particular note. Through the lens of this crucial novel, the oeuvre of Kate O'Brien is recontextualized and reassessed.
Download or read book Kate O Brien s Mary Lavelle written by Aintzane Legarreta and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land of Spices written by Kate O'Brien and published by Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran 1941.. This book was released on 1941 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mother Superior of an Irish convent reviews her life in flashbacks and makes a psychological study of herself.
Download or read book Mary Lavelle Talk of Angels written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Lavelle, a young Irish woman, journeys to Spain, which is fast approaching civil war, to work as a governess. There Mary soon finds her convent education and beliefs challenged by the fiery politics and passionate opinions of the family's son Juanito. Finding themselves at the heart of a family and a nation divided, Mary and Juanito seize the opportunity to consummate their love in a night of passion and betrayal that foretells the coming of a new era.
Download or read book The Land Of Spices written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST 'This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love' SUNDAY TIMES 'If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch' CLARE BOYLAN 'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland' IRISH TIMES Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has, for some time, been experiencing grave doubts about her vocation. But when she meets Anna Murphy, the youngest-ever boarder, the little girl's solemn, poetic nature captivates her and she feels 'a storm break in her hollow heart'. Between them an unspoken allegiance is formed that will sustain each through the years as the Reverend Mother seeks to combat her growing spiritual aridity and as Anna develops the strength to resist the conventional demands of her background.
Download or read book Talk of Angels written by Kate O'Brien and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 1997-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued to coincide with the release of the movie version, a controversial novel, banned in Ireland in 1936 for its frank depiction of lesbianism, follows an Irish woman who becomes involved with a fellow expatriate in Spain. Movie tie-in.
Download or read book Farewell Spain written by Kate O'Brien and published by Little Brown and Company (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctly personal elegy was written during the early days of the Spanish Civil War by a writer whose future was indelibly marked by a year of travelling in a unique and changing country. A series of reminiscences, impressions and vivid insights, Kate O'Brien's thoughtful journey offers something unique at every stage, and captures perfectly the spirit of a lost place and the experience of travel and memory.
Download or read book The Last Of Summer written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST 'This family tale mirrors the history of a country that can never evade its own past' The TIMES 'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland' IRISH TIMES It is 1939, the last summer before the outbreak of war. French actress Angele Maury abandons a group of friends travelling through Ireland and takes herself to picturesque Drumaninch, birthplace of her dead father. She has come to make sense of her past. Self-conscious with her pale, exotic beauty, Angele braves the idiosyncratic world of the Kernahans: her enigmatic aunt Hannah, her ridiculous but loveable uncle Corney and her three cousins - Martin, charming, intense; Tom, devoted to his mother, and their bright sister Jo, who combines religious faith with a penchant for gambling. But is there some mystery surrounding the past? History threatens to repeat itself as Angele finds herself seduced by the beauty of Ireland, and by the love of two men . . . first published in 1943, The Last of the Summer is a perfectly structured psychological love story.
Download or read book Mary Lavelle written by Kate O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic novel. Mary Lavelle, a beautiful young Irish woman, travels to pre-civil war Spain to see some of the world before marrying her steadfast fiance John. But despite the enchanting surroundings and her three charming charges, life as governess to the wealthy Areavaga family is lonely and she is homesick. Then comes the arrival of the family's handsome, passionate - and married - son Juanito and Mary's loyalties and beliefs are challenged. Falling in love with Juanito and with Spain, Mary finds herself at the heart of a family and a nation divided.
Download or read book Women Crime and Punishment in Ireland written by Elaine Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on women's relationships, life-circumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.
Download or read book The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture written by Fionnuala Dillane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history.
Download or read book Without My Cloak written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST 'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'The first time I realised how powerful the small ordinary family life story can be' MAEVE BINCHY 'A peculiarly beautiful and arresting piece of fiction' J. B. PRIESTLY When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. With his father's money, John's son Anthony builds a grand country house for his wife and children - but especially for his youngest son Denis, who he adores, little knowing that one day Denis will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl . . .
Download or read book Mary Lavelle written by Kate O'Brien and published by Fazi Editore. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As Music and Splendour written by Kate O'Brien and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1880s and '90s, As Music and Splendour tells the story of two young Irish girls who are sent to Rome for training as opera singers. Rose - red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced - is soon on track to become a prima donna soprano; Clare, also a soprano but subtler and less glamorous, is more at home with sacred music. While Rose juggles the affections of various men, Clare embarks on a passionate affair with her fellow-student Luisa. As Music in Splendour is a thrillingly readable and romantic novel from one of the very few truly important Irish novelists of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Mary Lavelle written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST 'A superior type of romantic novel . . . quasi-intelligent and discursive' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' VAL HENNESSY 'A description of a bull-fight that rivals Hemingway . . . dramatic . . . smooth' KIRKUS REVIEWS Mary Lavelle, a beautiful young Irish woman, travels to Spain to see some of the world before marrying her steadfast Fiance John. But despite the enchanting surroundings and her three charming charges, life as governess to the wealthy Areavaga family is lonely and she is homesick. Then comes the arrival of the family's handsome, passionate - and married - son Juanito and Mary's loyalties and beliefs are challenged. Falling in love with Juanito and with Spain, Mary finds herself at the heart of a family and a nation divided.
Download or read book Ireland and Dysfunction written by Asier Altuna-García de Salazar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays finds itself at the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, and explores the various ways in which dysfunction is expressed in Irish studies. Dysfunction can be regarded as part and parcel of a portrayal of a landscape of trauma and crisis that may have been traditionally repressed in Ireland at large. However, dysfunction also envisages mediation, managing, transcending and healing. As such, this volume examines how Ireland tackles dysfunction at large, but more importantly, how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in the understanding of the ever-changing and on-going process of the construction of an Irish identity today; sometimes looking back at the past, but always creating the need of inventing new ways to understand the future of Ireland. The collection presents essays which tackle dysfunction from different and multifarious perspectives that range from sociological, historical and literary discourses to more contemporary insights into dysfunction in today’s Ireland. It encompasses theory and analysis and includes the works of both senior academics and emerging scholars, as well as those outside academia.
