William Trevor: Revaluations - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719087902 ISBN 13: 9780719087905

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language: the author of fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays.

Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished international scholars, this volume shines a critical light on Trevor’s core concerns with individuality and the family, and cultural and national identity, extending significantly the scope of current scholarship. Essays scrutinise the author’s prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on choices his characters make.

William Trevor: Revaluations is a groundbreaking collection of essays, and will also be seen as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.

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About this title

About the Authors

Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing in English at Trinity College, Dublin

Michael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire

From the Back Cover

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language, an author who has produced fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays. Since the publication of his first novel in 1964, Trevor has either been a nominee for or a recipient of almost every major fiction prize. In many respects, he is that rare thing: a 'writer's writer', acclaimed by reviewers, and loved by generations of readers.

Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished, international scholars, the collection offers readings that are innovative, rigorous and timely. Rather than portraying Trevor simply as an 'Irish' or a 'traditional realist' writer, it locates his work within the contexts of both Irish and English cultures, stressing its transnational and contemporary compass.

As well as re-examining his core concerns with individuality and the family, cultural and national identity, these essays extend the scope of current scholarship, scrutinising the author's prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on the choices a person makes. The essays also address his affecting assessment of the intoxication of and need for love, and the breakdown in interpersonal relationships. William Trevor: Revaluations provides a much-needed interrogation of such issues, as well as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719087902
• ISBN 13: 9780719087905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Delaney Paul, Parker Michael