Flann OBrien & Modernism

Flann OBrien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood second generation modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates OBriens work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand OBriens nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends.

The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann OBrien & Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms

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