Book contents
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Irish Literature In Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Revisionary Foundations
- Part II Revolutionary Forms
- Part III Major Figures in Transition
- Part IV Aftermaths and Outcomes
- Chapter 15 Re-imagining Realism in Post-Independence Irish Writing
- Chapter 16 The Free State of Poetry
- Chapter 17 Live Wires and Dead Noise: Revolutionary Communications
- Chapter 18 The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing
- Part V Frameworks in Transition
- Index
Chapter 18 - The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing
from Part IV - Aftermaths and Outcomes
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Book contents
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Irish Literature In Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Revisionary Foundations
- Part II Revolutionary Forms
- Part III Major Figures in Transition
- Part IV Aftermaths and Outcomes
- Chapter 15 Re-imagining Realism in Post-Independence Irish Writing
- Chapter 16 The Free State of Poetry
- Chapter 17 Live Wires and Dead Noise: Revolutionary Communications
- Chapter 18 The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing
- Part V Frameworks in Transition
- Index
Summary
Modern Irish prose writing can be productively understood as a network of constantly developing and interconnecting styles and genres. There is the naturalist strand, beginning with the novels of George Moore but more often associated with Joyce’s Dubliners, which critics track through the mid-century short story writers (Frank O’Connor, Seán O’Faoláin, Mary Lavin) and the post-war realists (Edna O’Brien, John McGahern) to contemporary novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright.
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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940 , pp. 320 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020