Kate O"Brien and the fiction of identity

Kate O"Brien and the fiction of identity by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka Download PDF EPUB FB2

The book Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity brings to light the formal and thematic daring of O’Brien, evident in her subtextual tunnelling and her intermedial experimentation.

This is a new Kate O’Brien: modernist, anti-authoritarian, profound, humorous, sexy, angry, and indispensable. This new book provides a significant introduction and critical survey of the diverse works of Kate O'Brien ( - ) the Irish novelist, playwright, film-script writer, short-story writer, journalist and biographer.

Her novels in particular promoted gender equality and a greater understanding of gender diversity. 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 Lavalle", banned upon publication inis a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its wider popularity with readers.

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 inis a key work of the twentieth ce.

Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka is the author of Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity ( avg rating, 1 rating, 0 reviews, published ) and Kate O'B 4/5(1). (). Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings.

English Studies: Vol. 95, No. 6, pp. Author: Margaret O'Neill. Book Review of "Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity". Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.

Learn more5/5(1). Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings Article in English Studies 95(6) August with 35 Reads How we measure 'reads'.

A.L. Mentxaka () Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland). Google Scholar A.O. Weekes () Irish Women Writers — An Uncharted Tradition (Lexington: University of Kentucky).Author: Elizabeth Foley O’Connor.

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 Lavalle"", banned upon publication inis a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its wider popularity with readers.4/5(1).

Kate O'Brien Sat Dec 3: Author Aintzane Mentxaka (Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity), will present her book at The New Theatre in Dublin, Ireland at 3 pm. Categories: Events, Literature, News.

Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka is available in these libraries OverDrive (Rakuten OverDrive): eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Kate O'Brien's work is now widely considered canonical in the English language, and the author herself an.

She is the author of the monographs The Postcolonial Traveller: Kate O’Brien and the Basques (), and Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity (). Mentxaka is a former ‘Government of Ireland’ post-doctoral fellow with the National University of Ireland, and twice fellow with the Irish Research Council.

Kate O'Brien's determination to encourage a greater understanding of sexual diversity — several of her books include positive gay/lesbian characters —, make her a pioneer in queer literary : Kathleen Mary Louise O'Brien, 3 December.

The book Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity brings to light the radical formal and thematic daring of O’Brien, evident in her subtextual tunnelling and her intermedial experimentation. This is a new Kate O’Brien: modernist, anti-authoritarian.

As Aintzane Legaretta Mentxaka demonstrates in a recent study Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings (), as well as being an important contributor to modernism and the Bildungsroman, O’Brien’s work is also a form of activist fiction in that it promotes progressive politics and sexual liberation.

Kate O'Brien and the fiction of identity: sex, art and politics in Mary Lavelle and other writings. [Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka] -- "Kate O'Brien's novel, Mary Lavelle, banned upon publication inis a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its.

Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka and Publisher McFarland. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN:The print version of this textbook is ISBN:Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity.

Por. José Antonio Sierra Lumbreras/04/ Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity es un estudio hecho por Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka de la novela de Kate O’Brien Mary Lavelle (), situada en Bilbo eny hasta cierto punto un homenaje a la ciudad. The significance of darkness and light in the novel has been noted by Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka in Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings, who observes: ‘The interplay of shade and light is a device O'Brien was to prioritize in The Flower of May to the extent that the structure of Cited by: 1.Kate O’Brien ’ s eponymous heroine, a beautiful young woman, falls in love with a married man 4 e novel takes place in the initial decade of the twentieth century, between and Books Reviewed: Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen (eds).

Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, x+ pages. £ GBP. Aintzane Legaretta Mentxaka, Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings.

North Carolina and London.