This volume discusses place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008, including work by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Donal Ryan, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Barry, Gerard Donovan, Danielle McLaughlin, Trisha McKinney, Billy O'Callaghan and Colum McCann. In light of writing by geographers, anthropologists and philosophers like Doreen Massey, Tim Ingold, Giorgio Agamben and Jeff Malpas, this book examines metamorphoses of place and landscape in fiction in the aftermath of a crisis with deep economic and cultural consequences. It shows what place and landscape representations reveal of the past and how boundedness, openness and emergence can contribute to designing future landscapes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Part I: Opening up landscapes : renegotiating places in William Trevor's 'At Olivehill' (2007) and Dermot Bolger's A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)
Chapter 1: Reprocessing landscapes in William Trevor's 'At Olivehill'
Chapter 2: Challenging containment in Dermot Bolger's A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)
Part II: Metamorphoses of landscape in Anne Enright's The Forgotten Waltz and Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart
Chapter 3: From lust to bust: landscapes of desire in Anne Enright's The Forgotten Waltz
Chapter 4: Between degeneration and regeneration: the crumbling of place in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart
Part III: Landscapes of the future in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy and in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Chapter 5: Trying the beast: in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
Chapter 6: Placing nostalgia in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Part IV: In-between landscapes : short stories of the seaside and the poetics of hope in Colum McCann's fiction.
Chapter 7: On the edge: seascapes in five contemporary Irish short stories.
Chapter 8: Mapping the contemporary: place and movement
Chapter 9: Being between: Inhabiting the present
