Form, affect and debt in post-Celtic Tiger Irish fiction : Ireland in crisis / Dr E̐uoin Flannery.
| Author/creator |
Flannery, E̐uoin author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2022 |
| Description | ix, 239 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Celtic Tiger identity parades in Chris Binchy's Open-handed (2008) and Peter Cunningham's Capital sins (2010) -- The possibilities of shame in Dermot Bolger's Tanglewood (2015) -- Relative values in Donal Ryan's The thing about December (2013) and The spinning heart (2012) -- Bildung and temporality in Justice Quinn's Mount Merrion (2013) -- Debt, guild and form in (post-)Celtic Tiger Ireland -- Finance and fiction in Deirdre Madden's Time present and Time past (2013) -- Investing in fictions: faith abstraction and materiality in Paul Murray's The mark and the void (2015) |
| Abstract | "Based on readings of the most provocative voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland's recent economic 'boom' and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrastng aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original suit of perspectives on both established and emerging authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including: Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, Paul Murray, Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins, author Eoin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences, Flannery's analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understandings of Irish culture and society in an age of austerity; ecocriticism and late capitalism; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance. Insightful and original, Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction provides a seminal intervention in trying to grasp the cultural context and the literature of Celtic Tiger period and its wake"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781350166769 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2021053117 |
| ISBN | 9781350166745 |
| ISBN | 135016674X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350302204 paperback |
| ISBN | 1350302201 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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