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The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969

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For the past 30 years, the so-called Troubles thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Viewing Irish culture and the crime novel through the lens of key European thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Berthold Brecht, and Louis Althusser, Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary, Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins, Tom Clancy, Gerald Seymour, Colin Bateman, and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138383623
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 224
  • Udgivet:
  • 6. juni 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 235x154x17 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 352 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 16. januar 2025
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For the past 30 years, the so-called Troubles thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Viewing Irish culture and the crime novel through the lens of key European thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Berthold Brecht, and Louis Althusser, Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary, Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins, Tom Clancy, Gerald Seymour, Colin Bateman, and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form.

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