Trauma and History in the Irish Novel - The Return of the Dead

Informationen zum Autor ROBERT F. GARRATT is Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, Washington State, USA. His previous publications include Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney ; The Uses of the Past: Essays on Irish Culture and Society and Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney. Klappentext This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969. Zusammenfassung This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel! and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 'Undergoing History': J. G. Farrell's Troubles Cyclical History: Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men William Trevor and the Voices of History Jennifer Johnston and Traumatic Memory Representation and Trauma in John McGahern's Amongst Women Return of the Dead: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark The Contemporary Irish Novel Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 'Undergoing History': J. G. Farrell's Troubles Cyclical History: Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men William Trevor and the Voices of History Jennifer Johnston and Traumatic Memory Representation and Trauma in John McGahern's Amongst Women Return of the Dead: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark The Contemporary Irish Novel Index

About the author

ROBERT F. GARRATT is Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, Washington State, USA. His previous publications include Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney; The Uses of the Past: Essays on Irish Culture and Society and Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney.

Product details

• Authors: R Garratt, R. Garratt, Robert F Garratt, Robert F. Garratt, GARRATT ROBERT F
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2010
• EAN: 9780230250307
• ISBN: 978-0-230-25030-7
• No. of pages: 179
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, History, Fiction & related items, European History, Fiction, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary theory, History, Modern, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, English literature;fiction;novel