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Often hailed as a 'national genre', the short story has a long and
distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate
readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short
story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative
conception of it as a realist form, used to depict quintessential
truths about Ireland and Irish identity. This definition fails to
do justice to the richness and variety of short stories published
in Ireland since the 1850s. This collection aims to open up the
critical debate on the Irish short story to the many different
concerns, influences and innovations by which it has been formed.
The essays gathered here consider the diverse national and
international influences on the Irish short story and investigate
its genealogy. They recover the short fiction of writers neglected
in previous literary histories and highlight unexpected strands in
the work of established writers. They scrutinize established
traditions and use cutting-edge critical frameworks to discern new
trends. Taken together, the essays contribute to a more
encompassing and enabling view of the Irish short story as a
hybrid, multivalent and highly flexible literary form, which is
forever being reshaped to meet new insights, new influences and new
realities.
This book traces the development of the modern short story in the
hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George
Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna
O'Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many
Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the
genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often
been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the
Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist
concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed
investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers,
this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the
Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns
women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms
is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the
family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces
the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both
the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific
use each individual author makes of the short story form.
This book traces the development of the modern short story in the
hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George
Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna
O'Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many
Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the
genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often
been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the
Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist
concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed
investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers,
this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the
Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns
women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms
is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the
family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces
the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both
the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific
use each individual author makes of the short story form.
This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates
of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880
1950, the heydays of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through
case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and
authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning
of short stories within a variety of periodical publications
highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and
avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks
on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it
foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped
conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked
writers into developing the genre.Elke D'hoker is Professor of
English Literature at the University of Leuven.
This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable
first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The
different articles in this collection approach this topic both from
the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of
literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions,
characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection
contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable
narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the
different uses to which unreliability has been put in different
contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by
tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts
from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish,
Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume
significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative
unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the
foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar
Nunning) with essays from experts in different national traditions.
The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative
unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.
This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates
of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period
1880-1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through
case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and
authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning
of short stories within a variety of periodical publications -
highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and
avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks
on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it
foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped
conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked
writers into developing the genre.
"Relevance" is one of the most widely used buzz words in academic
and other socio-political discourses and institutions today, which
constantly ask us to "be relevant." To date, there is no profound
scholarly conceptualization of the term, however, which is widely
accepted in the humanities. Relevance and Narrative Research closes
this gap by initiating a discussion which turns the vaguely defined
evaluative tool "relevance" into an object of study. The
contributors to this volume do so by firmly situating questions of
relevance in the context of narrative theory. Briefly put, they ask
either "What can 'relevance' do for narrative research?" or "What
can narrative research do for better understanding 'relevance?'" or
both. The basic assumption is that relevance is a relational term.
Further assuming that most (if not all) relations which human
beings encounter within their cultures are narratively constructed,
the contributors to this volume suggest that reflections on
narrative and narrative research are fundamental to any endeavor to
conceptualize notions of "relevance."
r since the publication of her first collection, Tales from Bective
Bridge, in 1942, Mary Lavin has been praised for admirably
capturing, in intense and lucid stories, the social and
psychological reality of mid-20th-century Ireland. Yet, Lavin's
sharp insight into the quiet tragedies and joys of human life
easily transcends its immediate context, and her work continues to
appeal to contemporary readers, both in Ireland and abroad. To
celebrate the recent centenary of Mary Lavin's birth, this
collection honors one of the leading figures of the Irish short
story tradition. Leading critics examine the main themes and
stylistic features of Mary Lavin's novels and short stories from a
variety of perspectives,
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