Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and transnational settings. Essays explore…
"Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detecti…
Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.
Introduction. Of coast and cosmos: locating Irish expatriate modernism -- Ulysses, the sea, and the paradox of Irish internationalism -- "Forget! Remember!": Joyce's voices and the haunted cosmos -- Elizabeth Bowen's tenacious cosmopolitanism -- Crossings still: Irish interludes…
Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.