Violence and the Crisis of Identity in Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen
Focusing on the personae of Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, this article examines a seemingly intractable inconsistency in Brian O’Nolan’s body of work: the early O’Brien novels are punctuated by extreme, murderous, graphic violence, while the voice in na gCopaleen‘s Cruiskeen Lawn is characte...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2021-06-01
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| Series: | The Parish Review |
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| Online Access: | https://parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3329/ |