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Of Cops and Priests: Uses of Social and Moral Authority in Contemporary Irish-American Literature

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Of Cops and Priests: Uses of Social and Moral Authority in Contemporary Irish-American Literature - Carroll, Dennis
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This unique book explores the connections between events of Irish history and their effects on the Irish. It defines the Irish-cultural personality, examines Romantic ???Uncatholic??? visions of Yeats and Fitzgerald, Realistic Catholic visions of Joyce, Farrell and O'Connor and how they contrast with and parallel each other. Of Cops and Priests is about American Irish-Catholicism: loyality, family, religion, sex, guilt and repentence found in the works of Hogan, Breslin, Dunne, Uhnak, Gordon, O'Connor, Wolfe, Reardon and ...

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Of Cops and Priests: Uses of Social and Moral Authority in Contemporary Irish-American Literature 1993, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820419671

Hardcover