Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Flynn, Deirdre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), O'Brien, Eugene (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Poetry.; Fiction.; British and Irish Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.

This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding of the nature of loss, given its ability to access and express emotions, sensations, feelings, and the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss
• 2. 'In search of lost history: Embodied Memory and the Material Past in post-millennial Irish fiction'; Maria Beville
• 3. Holding on to 'rites, rhythms and rituals' Mike McCormack's homage to small town Irish life and death; Deirdre Flynn
• 4. Evental Time and The Untime in Finnegans Wake; Shahriyar Mansouri
• 5. 'It's only history': Post-Agreement Belfast in Rosemary Jenkinson's Short Fiction; Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
• 6. 'A Pure Change Happened': Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss; Eugene O'Brien
• 7. Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry; Anne Karhio
• 8. Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry; Eoin Flannery
• 9. Grief, Guilt, and Ghosts: Fantastic Strategies of Staging Loss on the Contemporary Irish Stage; Eva Marie Kubin
• 10. 'The wake? What of it?': Figures of Loss in the Migrant Plays of Colm Ó Clubhán; Ed Madden.