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This volume discusses place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008, including work 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 light of writing by geographers, anthropologists and philosophers like
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
This volume discusses place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008, including work 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 light of writing by geographers, anthropologists and philosophers like
