Abstract
Review of Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority, edited by Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, and John McCourt (Cork University Press, 2017)
Highlights
The creation of a forum eliciting new critical accounts of O’Nolan’s multifarious texts has fostered genuine dialogue amongst an ever-widening circle of scholars
One of the problems with authority that beset criticism of ‘Flann O’Brien’ is quite where it should position itself or whether it had earned the right to be regarded as a separate field of endeavour within Irish and modernist studies
The foundation of the International Flann O’Brien Society and of The Parish Review and the organisation of biennial conferences have given a new legitimacy to the field and galvanised it in ways that could not have been predicted
Summary
The creation of a forum eliciting new critical accounts of O’Nolan’s multifarious texts has fostered genuine dialogue amongst an ever-widening circle of scholars. One of the problems with authority that beset criticism of ‘Flann O’Brien’ is quite where it should position itself or whether it had earned the right to be regarded as a separate field of endeavour within Irish and modernist studies.
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