The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O'Brien's Fiction

Maureen O'Connor

doi:10.1002/9781444328066.ch42

The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O'Brien's Fiction

Maureen O'Connor

University of Limerick

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Irish Literature
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	209-223
Number of pages	15
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	9781405188098
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444328066.ch42
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Critical attitudes abroad, changing - ironically titled Girls in their Married Bliss, the third novel in what became The Country Girls Trilogy
Identifications with animals, and females - modern iterations of domesticity and sexual availability, recapitulating their pre-modern symbolic significance
Irish Free State, exploiting Irish myths - to its own masculinist ends, that O'Brien attempted to " re-mythologize" Irish experience in her fiction
Irish, like many people, loving a scandal - scandal perpetrated by someone with dash and style, being the better
Moving to London, her short stories - in periodicals as The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal
Mythopoeic Ireland - of Edna O'Brien's fiction
O'Brien with her latestaccolade, Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement in Literary Ireland Award - "she has a strong sense of the idiom of Ireland"
O'Brien, pilloried in Ireland - for obscenity, accused of immorality and banned by Irish censors
Scandal of O'Brien, eloping with a divorced"foreigner"- compounded her family's sense of disgrace
Táin Bó Cúailnge, explicitly referenced in a number of O'Brien's novels

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