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Laying Out the Bones - Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Hardcover)
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Laying Out the Bones - Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Irish Studies
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English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and
twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that
Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She
argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of
making sense of mortality and provides insight into Ireland's
cultural and historical experience of death. Combining key concepts
from narrative theory ""such as readers competing desires for a
story and for closure"" with Irish cultural analyses and literary
criticism, English performs astute close readings of death in
select novels by Joyce, Beckett, Kate O'Brien, John McGahern, and
Anne Enright. With each chapter, she demonstrates how novelistic
narrative serves as a way of mediating between the physical facts
of death and its lasting impact on the living. English suggests
that while Catholic conceptions of death have always been
challenged by alternative secular value systems, these systems have
also struggled to find meaningful alternatives to the consolation
offered by religious conceptions of the afterlife.
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