Reading Brendan Behan / edited by John McCourt.
Samuel Beckett referred to Brendan Behan as "the new O'Casey" and yet, despite all his international success, despite his enduring popularity, and perhaps because of his fame (and indeed, notoriety), Behan remains a neglected figure in literary criticism today. This is why this new volume edited by...
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Cork, Ireland :
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2019.
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| Physical Description: | x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction / John McCourt
- Brendan Behan's Borstal boy : the public persona and the delicate art of deceit / Derek Hand
- Lessons of detention / Maria DiBattista
- Bohemian Behan : late modernism,sexual politics and the "great awakening" of Brendan Behan / John Brannigan
- Brendan Behan : modernist writer / Deirdre McMahon
- Eros and liberation : the homoerotic boy in Borstal boy / Michael G. Cronin
- Brendan Behan's The hostage : translation, adaptation or recreation of An Giall? / Clíona Ní Ríordáin
- Brendan Behan and Elie Wiesel : An Giall and L'Aube / Mícheál Mac Craith
- "Not exactly patterned in the same mould" : Behan's Joyce / Johnn McCourt
- Secret scriptures : Brendan Behan in the Cruiskeen Lawn / Paul Fagan
- Behan's graveyard of radical possibility : Richard's Cork lag and the (Irish-) American dream / Michael Pierse.