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T1 Thematic Transgressions and Formal Innovations in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue
A1 Barros del Río, María Amor
K1 Edna O'Brien
K1 Transgression
K1 Narrative Voice
K1 Anti-bildungsroman
K1 Literatura irlandesa
K1 Irish literature
AB The paradigmatic literary work of Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue (1986) narrates the coming of age of two young women from rural backgrounds in the Ireland of the mid-twentieth century and their progressive entry into an adult world, passing through the capital, Dublin, to finally leave their country and arrive in London. Censured in its day, the trilogy is now acknowledged as a feminine Bildungsroman, above all, because of its open allusions to the awakening of female sexuality. However, most criticism has overlooked the political implications of its central theme, as well as the structural and formal innovations that the author employs to represent the impossibility of a feminine Bildung form. Polyphony, fragmentation, and ultimate disintegration are some of the elements that evidence the need to reconsider the place of the trilogy within the panorama of Irish literature.
PB Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
SN 1699-311X
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8545
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8545
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 09-may-2024