Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist Book

Foreword: A Portrait of the Critic as a Young Post-Modernist—J. Hillis Miller; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Beyond the Celtic Twilight Zone: Metafiction, Post-Modernism and Formalism; 1) The Two Towers: The Celtic Toilets Meets the Filthy Modern Tide; 2) ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Censorship, Sex and the Metonymic Code; 3) Character Building: The Role of the Self-Conscious Narrator; 4) This is not a Pipe: Frame-Breaking Strategies; 5) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: Flann O’Brien and the Dialogic Imagination; 6) Relative Worlds: Kit Marlowe Meets Philip Marlowe in the Fourth Dimension; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index.