Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction

A Comparative Study
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-46890-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009–2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’s Trilogy, Mercier and Camier, Footfalls and Not I, and those of a range of post-crash Irish novels including Beatlebone, Hawthorn and Child, Room, and A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, this book establishes Beckett’s continuing influence on Irish fiction. With particular reference to these newer authors’ treatment of scarcity, trauma, indeterminism, gender and sexuality, and confinement in the context of major societal changes and traumas in Irish society since 2009, topics include the imposition of austerity, collapse of faith in institutions, and the increasing recognition of LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mckinney, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beckett’s Ghost and Shadow in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Conclusion

Epilogue: Beckett and Ireland Since 2016

Über Autor(innen)

David McKinney completed his PhD in 2016 at University College Dublin, Ireland. Since then, he has taught Irish Studies and English Literature in the Schools of Irish and English at University College Dublin, and teaches research practice, cultural theory, and creativity in the British and Irish Institute of Modern Music.