1st Edition

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction

By Marie Mianowski Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction discusses the representations of place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008. It includes novels and short stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Donal Ryan, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Barry, Gerard Donovan, Danielle McLaughlin, Trisha McKinney, Billy O’Callaghan and Colum McCann. In the light of writings by geographers, anthropologists... Read more

Introduction



Part I: Opening up landscapes : renegotiating places in William Trevor’s ‘At Olivehill’ (2007) and Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)



Chapter 1: Reprocessing landscapes in William Trevor’s ‘At Olivehill’



Chapter 2: Challenging containment in Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)





Part II: Metamorphoses of landscape in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz and Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart



Chapter 3: From lust to bust: landscapes of desire in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz



Chapter 4: Between degeneration and regeneration: the crumbling of place in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart





Part III: Landscapes of the future in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy and in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry



Chapter 5: Trying the beast: in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy



Chapter 6: Placing nostalgia in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry





Part IV: In-between landscapes : short stories of the seaside and the poetics of hope in Colum McCann’s fiction.



Chapter 7: On the edge: seascapes in five contemporary Irish short stories.



Chapter 8: Mapping the contemporary: place and movement



Chapter 9: Being between: Inhabiting the present

Biography

Marie Mianowski is associate professor at the University of Nantes where she teaches contemporary literature in English, as well as literary translation. Her research focuses on Irish studies as well as place and landscape issues in literature and the arts. In 2012, she edited Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts.