Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel

by Bridget English

Book Overview

English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides insight into Ireland's cultural and historical experience of death. Combining key concepts from narrative theory--such as readers' competing desires for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815635362
• ISBN13: 9780815635369
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.8"