New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature: Spectral Borderlands

Fadem, M. Ruprecht

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-01-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137474742

DOI: 10.1057/9781137466235

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218