Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine,...
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Author: Mary M. McGlynn
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Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction by McGlynn, Mary M.

Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

CHF 67.47

Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

CHF 67.47
Author: Mary M. McGlynn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish fiction of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation of writing that downplays realistic and grammatical coherence. Noting that these traits have the effect of diminishing human agency, blurring questions of responsibility, and emphasizing emotion over rationality, McGlynn argues that they reflect and respond to social and economic conditions during the global economic crisis and its aftermath of recession, austerity, and precarity.

Rather than focusing on overt discussions of the crash and recession, McGlynn explores how the dominance of an economic worldview, including a pervasive climate of financialized discourse, shapes the way stories are told. In the writing of such authors as Anne Enright, Colum McCann, Mike McCormack, and Lisa McInerney, McGlynn unpacks the ways that formal departures from realism through grammatical asymmetries like unconventional verb tenses, novel syntactic choices, and reliance on sentence fragments align with a cultural moment shaped by feelings of impotence and rhetorics of personal responsibility.

Author: Mary M. McGlynn
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 10/17/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780815637868

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