Post-Traumatic Realism: Representations of History in Recent Irish NovelsThe aim of my essay is to describe major tendencies in contemporary Irish prose writing concerned with historical and political issues. The diversity of the themes and attitudes to the past necessitates a classification of the writings into several various groups of novels whereas my analysis of the modes of representing the intratextual universe paves the way for identifying a single literary convention (post-traumatic realism) which is typical of the works under discussion. Many of the quoted authors subscribe to historical revisionism which undermines the received historical narrative in Ireland and questions its aggressively nationalist model of patriotism. The nov...
In this essay, I compare ten different depictions of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. These depictio...
In this dissertation, I look at how the strains of post-colonial nationhood manifest in the haunted ...
This essay deals with a number of works by poets, playwrights and novelists who tackled the theme of...
Post-Traumatic Realism: Representations of History in Recent Irish Novels The aim of my essay is to...
The aim of my essay is to describe major tendencies in contemporary Irish prose writing concerned wi...
This essay explores several novels by contemporary Northern Irish writers with an eye to assessing h...
In my thesis, I will examine the aftermath of the trauma depicted by the novels, the role of memori...
This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and...
The aim of this study is to unravel the complex narratives animating the remembrance of Ireland’s an...
This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut...
Memory is not a static or innocuous representation of the past, but a continuing struggle over how b...
In this paper two different forms of representation of the Irish « Troubles » in fiction are opposed...
Critics of contemporary Irish literature note a surprising omnipresence of historical themes in the ...
This paper sets out to analyse representations of trauma in five contemporary Irish novels in the li...
Critics of contemporary Irish literature note a surprising omnipresence of historical themes in the ...
In this essay, I compare ten different depictions of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. These depictio...
In this dissertation, I look at how the strains of post-colonial nationhood manifest in the haunted ...
This essay deals with a number of works by poets, playwrights and novelists who tackled the theme of...
Post-Traumatic Realism: Representations of History in Recent Irish Novels The aim of my essay is to...
The aim of my essay is to describe major tendencies in contemporary Irish prose writing concerned wi...
This essay explores several novels by contemporary Northern Irish writers with an eye to assessing h...
In my thesis, I will examine the aftermath of the trauma depicted by the novels, the role of memori...
This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and...
The aim of this study is to unravel the complex narratives animating the remembrance of Ireland’s an...
This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut...
Memory is not a static or innocuous representation of the past, but a continuing struggle over how b...
In this paper two different forms of representation of the Irish « Troubles » in fiction are opposed...
Critics of contemporary Irish literature note a surprising omnipresence of historical themes in the ...
This paper sets out to analyse representations of trauma in five contemporary Irish novels in the li...
Critics of contemporary Irish literature note a surprising omnipresence of historical themes in the ...
In this essay, I compare ten different depictions of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. These depictio...
In this dissertation, I look at how the strains of post-colonial nationhood manifest in the haunted ...
This essay deals with a number of works by poets, playwrights and novelists who tackled the theme of...