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| Titre : | Powerful Voices : Female Narrators and Unreliability in three Irish Novels (2007) |
| Auteurs : | Elke D'HOKER, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (vol 32 n 1 2007) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 21-32 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This essay analyses the way contemporary female writers deal with the conventions of the "good heroine" and the "artless narrator" which have long dominated female first-person narration. It offers a detailed reading of three Irish novels Edna O'Brien's Johnny I Hardly Knew You, Molly Keane's Good Behaviour and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Bray House with a view to establishment how the unreliability of the murder-narrator in each novel condemnation alike. The essay also shows how in all three novels murder an d narration are closely linked to the notion of power, which each novel presents and evaluates in a different way |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Elke D'Hoker |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
