The Literature of Northern Ireland [electronic resource] : Spectral Borderlands /
Fadem, M. Ruprecht.author.
Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One "Au contraire": The Spectral Borderlands of Northern Irish Literature; Chapter Two Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin's "Other at the Edge of Life"; Chapter Three Outlining Silence in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian; Chapter Four Specter and Doubt in Anna Burns' No Bones; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary.
Poetry.
Great Britain—History.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.