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Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story
Elke D´hoker
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Description for Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story
Hardback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319302874
SKU
V9783319302874
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Ref
99-15
About Elke D´hoker
Elke D'hoker is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she is also co-director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has previously published Visions of Alterity (2004) and, as editor, Mary Lavin (2013) and The Irish Short Story (2015).
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