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This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.
List of contents
Foreword by a leading contemporary Irish writer
Introduction
1. Stefanie Lehner (Queen's University Belfast): Trauma, Time and Memory in the Novels of Deirdre Madden
2. Elizabeth A. Chase (Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts: "The Horror of Little Details": Ethics and Commemoration
3. Catriona Clutterbuck (University College Dublin): The Ideal and the Real in the Early Novels of Deirdre Madden
4. Zuzanna Sanches (University of Lisbon): Deirdre Madden's
Remembering Light and Stone and
Hidden Symptoms: Being in the World
5. Jerry White (Dalhousie University): "Tentatively coming towards the continent":
Nothing is Black and the Vagaries of Europeanism
6. Brian Cliff (Trinity College Dublin): Class and Multiplicity in
One by One in the Darkness7. Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims): Deirdre Madden's Art of Detail and the Search for Authenticity
8. Elke D'hoker (Catholic University of Leuven): Imaginaries of Home in Deirdre Madden's fiction
9. Heather Ingman (Trinity College Dublin): Ageing and Authenticity in the Novels of Deirdre Madden
10. Hedwig Schwall (Catholic University of Leuven): "Sensing your way back into childhood": The Function of Phantasms in
Authenticity11. Derek Hand (Dublin City University): Living Lives of Quiet Desperation: Deirdre Madden's
Authenticity and
Molly Fox's Birthday in the Context of the Celtic Tiger Irish Novel
12. Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon): "Let us think... Let me show her to you": The Role of Fiction in Deirdre Madden's Novels of Ideas
13. Julie Anne Stevens (Dublin City University): Looking at Material Reality: Deirdre Madden's Books for Children
Afterword: Interview with Deirdre Madden by Marisol Morales (University of Alcalá)
Index
About the author
Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin
Marisol Morales-Ladrón is Professor of English and Irish literature at the University of Alcalá
Summary
This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland. -- .
