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The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers Edited by Theresa OConnor - photo 1
The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers
Edited by
Theresa O'Connor
University Press of Florida
Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville

title:The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers
author:O'Connor, Theresa.
publisher:University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin:0813014573
print isbn13:9780813014579
ebook isbn13:9780813020099
language:English
subjectEnglish literature--Irish authors--History and criticism, Humorous stories, English--Irish authors--History and criticism, English wit and humor--Irish authors--History and criticism, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and lit
publication date:1996
lcc:PR8733.C66 1996eb
ddc:823/.0099287
subject:English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism, Humorous stories, English--Irish authors--History and criticism, English wit and humor--Irish authors--History and criticism, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and lit
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Copyright 1996 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
Chapter 1, "What Foremothers?" by Nuala N Dhomhnaill, is reprinted by permission of Poetry Ireland Review.
Chapter 4, "'Humor with a Gender': Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M.," by James M. Cahalan, copyright 1993 by the Irish American Cultural Institute of St. Paul, Minnesota, is reprinted by permission of the editors of ire-Ireland and the Irish American Cultural Institute.
In chapter 9, lines from "Cathleen" (translated by Paul Muldoon) from The Astrakhan Cloak, by Nuala N Dhomhnaill, and from "The Race" (translated by Derek Mahon), "The Broken Doll'' (translated by John Montague), ''Blodewedd" (translated by John Montague), "The Unfaithful Wife" (translated by Paul Muldoon), and "Oriental Morning" (translated by Michael Hartnett) from Pharaoh's Daughter, by Nuala N Dhomhnaill, are reprinted by permission of Wake Forest University Press. Lines from "Dil," "Bradin," "Mthair," "Labhrann Medb," "C Chulainn I," "C Chulainn II," "Agallamh," and "Labhrann an Mhr-Rion" are reprinted by permission of Nuala N Dhomhnaill.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The comic tradition in Irish women writers / [edited by] Theresa O'Connor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1457-3 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. English literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticism. 2. Humorous stories, English
Women authorsHistory and criticism. 3. Humorous stories, EnglishIrish authors
History and criticism. 4. English wit and humorIrish authorsHistory and criticism.
5. English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 6. Women and literature
IrelandHistory. 7. Comic, The, in literature. 8. IrelandIn literature. I. O'Connor, Theresa.
PR8733.C66 1996
823.0099287dc20 96-22957
The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University
System of Florida, comprised of Florida A & M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida
International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of
Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.
University Press of Florida, 15 Northwest 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32611
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for my mother, Catherine O'Connor,
and my father, James L. O'Connor
Page v
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Tradition and the Signifying Monkey
Theresa O'Connor
1
1. What Foremothers?
Nuala N Dhomhnaill
8
2. The Voices of Maria Edgeworth's Comedy
Eilan N Chuilleanin
21
3. Hyacinth and the Wise Man: Lady Gregory's Comic Enterprise
Mary Lowe-Evans
40
4. "Humor with a Gender": Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M.
James M. Cahalan
58
5. The Crumbling Fortress: Molly Keane's Comedies of Anglo-Irish Manners
Rachael Jane Lynch
73
6. Iris Murdoch's Moral Comedy
Flora Alexander
99

Page vi
7. (S)he Was Too Scrupulous Always: Edna O'Brien and the Comic Tradition
Michael Patrick Gillespie
108
8. History, Gender, and the Postcolonial Condition: Julia O'Faolain's Comic Rewriting of Finnegans Wake
Theresa O'Connor
124
9. Lashings of the Mother Tongue: Nuala N Dhomhnaill's Anarchic Laughter
Mary O'Connor
149
10. Joyce and Boylan's Black Baby: "Swiftly and Silently"
Jean-Louis Giovannangeli
171
Contributors
183
Index
185

Page vii
Acknowledgments
This book had its earliest beginnings in a conversation with Vivian Mercier and Eils Dillon at a Joyce conference on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice in 1988. I benefited greatly from the encouragement I received from this wise, generous, and formidably learned pair.
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