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Biography

Name: Aidan Higgins
Birth Date: March 3, 1927
Nationality: British, English
Ethnicity: Irish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Aidan Higgins
2,526 words, approx. 8 pages
For some Irish writers, their motherland is still the sow that devours her farrow. The formal issues of modernism, so at odds with the curious religious and social balances of Irish society, still remain as issues for those who, even in the latter...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Aidan Higgins Information
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Aidan Higgins (born March 3, 1927) is an Irish writer. His upbringing in a landed Catholic family in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, provided material for his first experimental novel, Langrishe, Go Down (1966). The book was awarded the James Tait...


News and Journals
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Aidan Higgins.
09/22/2003: 15,658 words, approx. 52 pages
That time, that place, was it all your own invention, that you shared with me? And I too perhaps was your invention. --Aidan Higgins, Helsingor Station and Other Departures More than thirty years ago Aidan Higgins indicated that all of his...
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Review of Contemporary Fiction
Aidan Higgins
10/01/2003: 15,670 words, approx. 52 pages
That time, that place, was it all your own invention, that you shared with me? And I too perhaps was your invention. -Aidan Higgins, Helsingor Station and Other Departures More than thirty years ago Aidan Higgins indicated that all of his work...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Rüdiger Imhof
12,070 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Imhof traces Higgins's literary development and asserts that his early short fiction should be considered his best work.
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Critical Essay by Jack Byrne
8,598 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Byrne draws literary parallels between Higgins’s short story “Killachter Meadow” and his novel Langrishe, Go Down through a chronological study of the works’s protagonists.
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Critical Essay by Robin Skelton
5,274 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Skelton asserts that Higgins is working toward “the Total Book” in his fiction, in that he is “exploring the possibilities of linguistic innovation.”
 


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