Read e-book online Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story PDF

By Elke D'hoker

ISBN-10: 3319302876

ISBN-13: 9783319302874

This e-book strains the advance of the fashionable brief tale within the fingers of Irish ladies writers from the Eighteen Nineties to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are just a number of the many Irish girls writers who've made lasting contributions to the style of the fashionable brief tale - but their achievements have frequently been marginalized in literary histories, which usually outline the Irish brief tale when it comes to its oral history, nationalist issues, rural realism and outsider-hero. via a close research of the fast fiction of fifteen popular writers, this learn goals to open up this severe conceptualization of the Irish brief tale to the formal houses and thematic matters girls writers convey to the style. What sticks out in thematic phrases is an abiding curiosity in human kinfolk, even if of affection, the kin or the bigger neighborhood. In formal phrases, this publication strains the general improvement of the Irish brief tale, highlighting either the strains of impact that attach those writers and the explicit use each one person writer makes of the fast tale form.

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