Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction : : Silences That Speak.

Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction : : Silences That Speak.

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Superior document:New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
:
Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa.
TeilnehmendeR:
Carregal-Romero, José.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Praise for Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Silences that Speak
  • References
  • 2 Conspicuously Silent: The Excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue's Historical Novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars
  • Introduction
  • The Cultural History Approach
  • The Wonder (2016)
  • The Pull of the Stars (2020)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 "To Pick Up the Unsaid, and Perhaps Unknown, Wishes": Reimagining the "True Stories" of the Past in Evelyn Conlon's Not the Same Sky
  • References
  • 4 "He's Been Wanting to Say That for a Long Time": Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín's Fiction
  • References
  • 5 The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence
  • Introduction
  • Formal Strategies of Silence
  • Themes of Silence in Irish Short Fiction
  • The Ambivalence of Silence in Claire Keegan's Fiction
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry's Lives of Quiet Desperation
  • Submerged Population Group
  • Lives of Quiet Desperation
  • Primal Scream
  • Nothing Happens, Twice
  • The Old Lost Voices
  • References
  • 7 The Silencing of Speranza
  • References
  • 8 "A Self-Interested Silence": Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon's Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9 Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction
  • Introduction
  • Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction
  • The Spinning Heart (2012)
  • The Thing About December (2013)
  • All We Shall Know (2016)
  • From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018)
  • Strange Flowers (2018)
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 10 "Sure, Aren't the Church Doing Their Best?" Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men
  • Introduction: "The Silences of Our Past"
  • Consensual Silence and National Narratives
  • The Cruelty Men.
  • Conclusion: Stories of Conscience and Social Justice
  • References
  • 11 Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Normal People
  • "I Just Let it Fall off into Silence": Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Care in Conversations with Friends
  • "They Had the Same Unnameable Spiritual Injury": Vulnerability, Objectification and Silence in Normal People
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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