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Author:   Eamon Maher ,  Elke D'hoker ,  Stephanie Eggermont
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   63
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9783034317535

ISBN 10:   3034317530
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   16 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Elke D’hoker: Complicating the Irish Short Story – Marguérite Corporaal: ‘Let any one try to picture what it is’: The Dynamics of the Irish Short Story and the Mediation of Famine Trauma, 1850-1865 – Gaïd Girard: From Tale to Short Story: The Motif of the Stolen Child in Le Fanu’s Short Fiction – Heidi Hansson: Emily Lawless and History as Story – Debbie Brouckmans: Bridging Tradition and Modernity: George Moore’s Short Story Cycle The Untilled Field – Michael O’Sullivan: Loneliness and the Submerged Population: Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice and Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ – Brian Ó Conchubhair: What Happened to Literary Modernism in the Irish-Language Short Story? – Hilary Lennon: Frank O’Connor’s 1920s Cultural Criticism and the Poetic Realist Short Story – Johanna Marquardt: Oral Tradition with a Twist: Flann O’Brien’s Short Fiction and Nation Building – Veronica Bala: Early Readings, Early Writings: Samuel Beckett’s Student Library and His First Short Stories – Eibhear Walshe: The Ghostly Fields of North Cork: Ireland in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen – Theresa Wray: Breaking New Ground and Making Patterns: Mary Lavin’s First Short Story Collection Tales from Bective Bridge – Heather Ingman: The Female Writer in Short Stories by Irish Women – Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt: Claire Keegan’s New Rural Ireland: Torching the Thatched Cottage – Anne Fogarty: A World of Strangers? Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary Irish Short Story.

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Elke D’hoker is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven, where she is also co-director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004) and co-editor of Narrative Unreliability (2008), Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives (2011) and Mary Lavin (2013). Stephanie Eggermont is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven. In her doctoral dissertation, she investigated the contribution of women writers to the birth of the modern short story in Britain. Her fields of research include British short fiction, gender studies and fin-de-siècle journalism.

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