Irony, Trauma, and Compassion: Brendan Behan’s and Maeve Brennan’s Mid-century Short Prose
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2024.67.7" target="_blank" >10.14712/2571452X.2024.67.7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Irony, Trauma, and Compassion: Brendan Behan’s and Maeve Brennan’s Mid-century Short Prose
Original language description
Born only a few years apart, Brendan Behan (1923) and Maeve Brennan (1917) were children of independent Ireland, raised by Republican families on the opposite banks of the Liffey. Although they probably never met - in Dublin or New York - there are fascinating parallels, as well as contrasts, in their biographies and in their writing. This article compares Behan's and Brennan's life-writing short prose, published predominantly in The Irish Press (1951-1957) and The New Yorker (c. 1950s-1960s), respectively. Brennan's contributions to the "Talk of the Town" column under the pseudonym The Long-Winded Lady, as well as a few other autobiographical pieces, are analysed as a counterpart to Behan's Irish Press column. The essay focuses on three common areas in the selected writing: irony as Brennan's and Behan's response to their positions of a female and working-class writer, respectively, their revisiting of personal and collective memories of traumatic moments in modern Irish history, and a socially aware and compassionate chronicling of the lives of ordinary people.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture
ISSN
0862-8424
e-ISSN
2571-452X
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
67
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
105-124
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85199205491