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"An original study. In addition to using his readings of prison literature to highlight the continuing influence of a subtly conservative modernist aesthetic within the academy, Whalen also refutes elements of the poststructural theory that has represented new criticism s most widely-accepted alternative, rejecting in particular poststructuralism s pessimism concerning the possibility of human agency. Whalen s readings are superb; he deftly balances descriptions of the overall pieces he explicates, the historical and material conditions under which they were created, and the telling details on which he founds his surprisingly weighty arguments." - Margot Backus, University of Houston
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing
Book Subtitle: Writing and Resistance
Authors: Lachlan Whalen
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610064
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Lachlan Whalen 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8193-6Published: 09 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53887-4Published: 09 April 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61006-4Published: 26 November 2007
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Literature, general, History of Britain and Ireland, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction