Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

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This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O´Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overalldevelopment of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.mehr

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KlappentextThis book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O´Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overalldevelopment of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.

Details

ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-80770-6

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2018

Erscheinungsdatum07.06.2018

AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

Seiten231 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht321 g

IllustrationenX, 231 p.

Artikel-Nr.45667872

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. Mothers of the Irish Short Story: George Egerton and Somerville and Ross.- 2. Houses and Homes in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen and Maeve Brennan.- 3. Mary Lavin´s Relational Selves.- 4. Staging the Community in Irish Short Fiction: Choruses, Cycles and Crimes.- 5. The Rebellious Daughters of Edna O´Brien and Claire Keegan.- 6. Double Visions: The Metafictional Stories of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Enright and Donoghue.- Bibliography.- Index.mehr

Kritik

"This is a stimulating and engaging account that justifies its focus on women writers by the fresh angles it opens up on the Irish short story so often viewed as settled around themes and styles defined by male writers and critics." (Heather Ingman, Review of Irish Studies in Europe - RISE, Vol. 2 (01), March, 2018)mehr