Deirdre (Hrsg.) Flynn

Irish Urban Fictions

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This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute to a more complete picture of modern Irish literature and Irish urban cultural identities. It offers a critical introduction to the Irish city as it represented in fiction as a plural space to mirror the plurality of contemporary Irish identities north and south of the border. The chapters combine to provide a platform for new research in the field of Irish urban literary studie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Beville, Maria (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-98322-6
EAN: 9783319983226
Produktnummer: 29267631
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'455 KB

Über den Autor

Maria Beville is a researcher, lecturer, and writer with the Centre for Studies in Otherness. Her research interests include Gothic studies, Irish Studies, and cultural theory. Working mostly with contemporary fiction and film, her recent research has focused on the supernatural city in literature. Her books include The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film (2013), The Gothic and the Everyday (co-edited 2014) and Gothic-postmodernism (2009). She is editor of the journal Otherness: Essays and Studies.Deirdre Flynn is a lecturer in English Literature and Drama at Mary Immaculate College Limerick, and in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She was recently awarded a Moore Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship for her work on the representation of female middle age in Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction. She lectures at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level in English Literature, and Drama and Theatre Studies. Her recent co-edited collection Representations of Loss in Irish Literature was published with Palgrave in June 2018.