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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Irish fiction"”.
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
… for inclusion in a tradition of significant Irish literary voices. The fictional work, in particular, of this writer facilitates access to an expanse of issues which constituted a major part of late nineteenth-century political, social and cultural debate in both Ireland and Britain. Most …
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The impact of the border on Irish fiction, 1969-2016
… into being alongside. Through a close reading of Irish fiction, published since 1969, I will propose that the border has had, and continues to have, a significant influence on Irish writing. This, I will argue, is most clearly seen in the tendency of border fictions to reject standards of …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… compiles a varied archive of British and Irish “underground literature”; forgoing an encyclopedic documentation of underground spaces for a series of case studies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts, it demonstrates how the unusual and unusually durable topoi of …
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Unreliability in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Narration, Masculinities, and the Affects of Trauma, Guilt and Shame in Damian McNicholl's "A Son Called Gabriel" and John Boyne's "A History of Loneliness" and "The Heart’s Invisible Furies"
… in the 1950s and what it implies now. I focus on Irish masculinities to understand the characters better, as well as fatherhood to explore the relationship of the protagonists with their fathers and sons in order to understand them as men. Chapter four deals with narration, given that my analysis …
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Stylistic Means and Devices in Contemporary Irish Short Stories /
Irish literature distinguishes from English literature that is why it is analyzed separately. The most common supposition about Irish fiction is that the Irish are especially gifted as short story writers. Ben Forkner in his edited book Modern Irish Short Stories (1980:21) pointed out that the …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
In search of an Irish women's literary tradition, this dissertation examines the fiction of Irish women writers from Maria Edgeworth in 1800 to Jennifer Johnston in 1984. Contemporary anthropological, psychoanalytical, and literary theory suggests that women, even those of different cultures, …
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Lost Elysium: space as a metaphor for the liminal in a post-Catholic world
This thesis was submitted as part of a PhD by Prior Publication. It explores the motivations for my writing, and examines the formative early experiences, and early artistic habits and reading in which my life as a writer are rooted. The thesis is divided into two parts, an essay called ‘Lost …