Bern New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
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Part of the series Reimagining Ireland v. 36;Reimagining Ireland v. 36.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction / Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien — Precursors of change. The semiotic theory of iconic realism and cultural dissonance in de Meun’s and de Lorris’s Roman de la rose and James Joyce’s Ulysses / Jeanne I. Lakatos — In the buginning is the woid : creation, paternity and the logos in Joyce’s Ulysses / Cathy McGlynn — The donkey and the sabbath / Mary Pierse — Developments in the Irish and Irish-American novel. Exploring the Irish Catholic mother in Kate O’Brien’s Pray for the wanderer / Sharon Tighe-Mooney — A Catholic agnostic : Kate O’Brien / Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka — Edwin O’Connor’s language of grace / James Silas Rogers — Issues of faith in selected fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / Eamon Maher — Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God : religion in the fiction of John McGahern / Peter Guy — The poets and the playwrights. Any Catholics among you…? : Seamus Heaney and the real of Catholicism / Eugene O’Brien — Hopping round knock shrine in the falling rain : revision and Catholicism in the poetry of Paul Durcan / John McDonagh — To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous : Catholicism on stage in independent Ireland / Victor Merriman — Effing the ineffable: Brian Friel’s wonderful Tennessee and the interrogation of transcendence / Tony Corbett.

Subjects:

• English literature — Irish authors — History and criticism.
• English literature — Catholic authors — History and criticism.
• English literature — 20th century — History and criticism.
• American literature — Irish American authors — History and criticism.
• American literature — 20th century — History and criticism.
• Catholic Church — In literature.
• Catholics in literature.
• Christianity in literature.

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