Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Author: Deirdre Flynn

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319785509

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 205

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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 visceral and haptic areas of experience. Dealing with feelings and with sensations, poems, novels and drama can allow for cathartic expressions of these emotions, as well as for a fuller understanding of what is involved in loss across all situations. The main notion of loss being dealt with is that of death, but feelings of loss in the wake of immigration and of the loss of certainties that defined notions of identity are also analysed. This volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in Irish Studies, loss, memory, trauma, death, and cultural studies.
Representations of Loss in Irish Literature
Language: en
Pages: 205

Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Authors: Deirdre Flynn, Eugene O'Brien
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-30 - Publisher: Springer

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,
Ethics and Literary Practice
Language: en
Pages: 248

Ethics and Literary Practice

Authors: Adam Zachary Newton
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-09 - Publisher: MDPI

This volume draws together a diverse array of scholars from across the humanities to formulate and address the question of “ethics and literary practice” for a new decade. In taking up a conjunction whose terms remain productively open to question, fifteen essays survey a range of approaches and topics including
The Cambridge History of World Literature
Language: en
Pages:

The Cambridge History of World Literature

Authors: Debjani Ganguly
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on the assumption that World
The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 283

The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

Authors: Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey, Emilie Pine
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-06 - Publisher: Springer

This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports
Literary Representations of the Irish Country House
Language: en
Pages: 212

Literary Representations of the Irish Country House

Authors: M. Kelsall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-12-10 - Publisher: Springer

This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the