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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Part II Spaces
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Chapter 11 The Irish Realist Novel
- Chapter 12 Faith, Secularism, and Sacred Institutions
- Chapter 13 Writing the Tiger: Economics and Culture
- Chapter 14 Violence, Trauma, Recovery
- Chapter 15 Modes of Witnessing and Ireland’s Institutional History
- Coda: Edna O’Brien and Eimear McBride
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Chapter 11 - The Irish Realist Novel
from Part III - Forms of Experience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Part II Spaces
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Chapter 11 The Irish Realist Novel
- Chapter 12 Faith, Secularism, and Sacred Institutions
- Chapter 13 Writing the Tiger: Economics and Culture
- Chapter 14 Violence, Trauma, Recovery
- Chapter 15 Modes of Witnessing and Ireland’s Institutional History
- Coda: Edna O’Brien and Eimear McBride
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a study of some key developments in Irish realism from the 1980s to the contemporary moment. The Irish novel in a variety of forms, including the bildungsroman, the family novel, the expatriate novel and political fiction, has developed significantly in this period and its highest achievements are distinguished by memorable characterisation, probing social critique, and lyrical writing. Stressing issues of form, style, and affect as well as content, the study examines a selection of Irish fictions, urban and rural, domestic and overseas, northern and southern, and considers their relationship to wider and ongoing changes in Irish society in recent times.
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- Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020 , pp. 211 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020