William Trevor: Revaluations

by Delaney, Paul

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Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor.

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Title Statements

Full title :William Trevor : Revaluations.

Summary

Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781526112392, 1526112396, 9781526112385, 1526112388
DOI:10.7765/9781526112392
oclc:ocn960163163
LC Classification:PR6070.R4.W555 2013
Dewey Decimal:823.91399999999999

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction; Part One ; 1 Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading ; 2 In another country: aspects of Trevor's England ; 3 'Compassion thrown to the winds': William Trevor and postcolonial London ; 4 'The battlefield has never quietened': political violence in the fiction of William Trevor ; 5 William Trevor's screen fictions: 'No interest. Not suitable for treatment' ; Part Two ; 6 The Ireland that we dreamed of?: 'The Ballroom of Romance'

7 'Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey': reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune8 'Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden ; 9 The tragedy of the return of history: 'Lost Ground' ; 10 The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia's Journey ; 11 ' as if she were a symbol of something ': The Story of Lucy Gault ; 12 'The art of the glimpse': Cheating at Canasta ; 13 Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer ; Bibliography and filmography ; Index.