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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"The Country Girls Trilogy"”.
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The country girls trilogy: la formulación del bildungsroman femenino en Irlanda
Esta tesis se basa en el analisis literario de The Country Girls Trilogy, obra que la irlandesa Edna O'Brien publicó en 1987. Para su estudio y comprension ha sido necesaria abordar, en primer lugar, la historia de la mujer irlandesa y los conceptos de Motherhood, Mother Land y Mother Church a los …
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Troubled Formations Sexuality and the Irish Catholic Bildungsroman, 1916-1965
Summary This dissertation studies the historical development of the Irish Catholic bildungsroman from James Joyce to Edna O ’Brien and John McGahern. Specifically, this study is focused on the construction of sexuality in this genre. The novels are therefore read in conjunction with those d …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
In his 1941 poem The Great Hunger, a scathing critique of rural idealism in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh defines his Irish anti-hero by the “impotent worm on his thigh,” a “no-target gun” that represents his purposeless masculinity as life becomes “dried in [his] veins.” Twenty …