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,
Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020
Language: en
Pages: 256

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

Authors: Deirdre Flynn, Ciara L. Murphy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-18 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 focuses on the underrepresented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies, considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis
Language: en
Pages: 214

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis

Authors: Andrew J. Auge, Eugene O'Brien
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-30 - Publisher: Routledge

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon – Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan,
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
Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures
Language: en
Pages: 589

Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

Authors: Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world