Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction

Ireland in Crisis

Bibliographic Data

ID19913610
AuthorsEóin Flannery (0000-0001-5123-6708, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueForm, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350166776
OpenAlexW4212999843
ISBN9781350166776
Open LibraryOL33963902M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Based on readings of the most provocative voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original suit of perspectives on both established and emerging authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including: Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, Paul Murray, Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins, author Eoin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences, Flannery’s analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understandings of

Affect (linguistics) · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Celtic languages · Celtic Tiger · Debt · Demise · Irish · Literary criticism · Literature · Performance art · Political science · Shame · Sociology · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Affect (Psychology) in literature · Debt in literature · History and criticism · in literature · Irish literature

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