Editors:
- Represents the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss
- Presents research from some major critics in Irish Studies
- Examines how generic constructs address issues of loss in different ways
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fiction, Narrative and Loss
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Front Matter
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Poetic and Dramatic Loss
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Deirdre Flynn
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University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Eugene O'Brien
About the editors
Eugene O’Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, and Director of the Mary Immaculate Institute for Irish Studies. He is also the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory. He has written six single author books and edited or co-edited a further seven. His most recent books are: Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker, The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, edited with Eamon Maher.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature
Editors: Deirdre Flynn, Eugene O'Brien
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78550-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78549-3Published: 11 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08728-9Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78550-9Published: 30 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Fiction