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This volume explores the relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. Paige Reynolds examines how the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, and others, employs the modernist mode to articule female interiority as a way of thinking about contemporary social problems.

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Introduction: Looking 1: Refashioning Modernism (Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Kelly, Evelyn Conlon, June Caldwell) 2: Praying (Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, Emma Donoghue, Eimear McBride) 3: Daydreaming (Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden) 4: Logging Off (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Claire-Louise Bennett, Louise O'Neill) 5: Reading (Sally Rooney, Anna Burns) Coda: Recalibrating (Mike McCormack)

Modernism in Irish Womens Contemporary Writing

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 23/11/2023
      ISBN13: 9780198881056, 978-0198881056
      ISBN10: 0198881053

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume explores the relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. Paige Reynolds examines how the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, and others, employs the modernist mode to articule female interiority as a way of thinking about contemporary social problems.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Looking 1: Refashioning Modernism (Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Kelly, Evelyn Conlon, June Caldwell) 2: Praying (Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, Emma Donoghue, Eimear McBride) 3: Daydreaming (Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden) 4: Logging Off (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Claire-Louise Bennett, Louise O'Neill) 5: Reading (Sally Rooney, Anna Burns) Coda: Recalibrating (Mike McCormack)

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