Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss.- 2. 'In search of lost history: Embodied Memory and the Material Past in post-millennial Irish fiction'; Maria Beville.- 3. Holding on to 'rites, rhythms and rituals' Mike McCormack's homage to small town Irish life and death; Deirdre Flynn.- 4. Evental Time and The Untime in Finnegans Wake; Shahriyar Mansouri.- 5. 'It's only history': Post-Agreement Belfast in Rosemary Jenkinson's Short Fiction; Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado.- 6. 'A Pure Change Happened': Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss; Eugene O'Brien.- 7. Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry; Anne Karhio.- 8. Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry; Eoin Flannery.- 9. Grief, Guilt, and Ghosts: Fantastic Strategies of Staging Loss on the Contemporary Irish Stage; Eva Marie Kubin.- 10. 'The wake? What of it?': Figures of Loss in the Migrant Plays of Colm ? Clubh?n; Ed Madden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303008728X
• ISBN13: 9783030087289
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"