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Recontextualising Edna O'Brien

Panel Chairs: Kathryn Laing and Sinead Mooney

We see this panel as a forerunner of the forthcoming conference on Edna O'Brien's work (Edna O’Brien: A Reappraisal in October 2004), in which we hope to elicit new readings of her writing that complement and add to existing criticism.

Panel One
Maureen O'Connor, 'Edna O'Brien: Irish Dandy'.
Maria Grazia Furnari (U of Bologna), 'Into the dark forest of Edna O'Brien's neo-Gothic Fiction'.
Loredana Salis (U of Ulster) 'Edna's Euripides: Ritual and Language in Edna O'Brien's Iphigenia'.

Panel Two
June O'Sullivan (UCC), 'Mis-Fits: Models of Female Development in Edna O'Brien and Alice Munro'.
Victoria Ramirez, (Weber), 'Edna O'Brien's Narrative Dialogism in House of the Splendid Isolation'.
Maeve Redmond (U of Surrey), 'Country Girl, London Boy: Parental, Filial and Cultural Influences on the Life Writings of Edna O'Brien and Carlo Gebler'.
Ninian Mellamphy (U of Western Ontario), 'Reading the Edna O'Brien of the 1990s in the Light of the 90s Fiction of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood'.

From the Original Call for Papers...

For the panel, we are seeking papers that reconsider Edna O'Brien's place in the canon, her work's participation in literary traditions, its interactions with contemporary fiction, its response to and presence in the work of other writers. Possible topics might include:

Edna O'Brien' and her Literary Influences
Edna O'Brien in the Context of Irish Women Writers
Edna O'Brien and Other Writers
Edna O'Brien and Contemporary Fiction
Edna O'Brien as Literary Influence
Edna O'Brien and the Comic Tradition

Please send 250-word proposals for 15-20 minute papers to Dr. Kathryn Laing and Dr Sinead Mooney in the English Department, NUI, Galway at kslaing@indigo.ie and sinead.mooney@nuigalway.ie by March 31st, 2004.

Please make sure that you are a member of IASIL by March 1st, 2004.

IASIL 2004 is hosted by The National University of Ireland, Galway