Language, Being and the Body in Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21815423 |
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| Authors | Orsolya Szűcs (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 265-284 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1821-3138 • E-ISSN: 1821-4827 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18485/bells.2021.13.12 |
| OpenAlex | W4205294676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Presence and participation are key aspects in McBride's narrative; it allows the reader to access the point where thought becomes language so that it is still closely linked to the experiencing body. It tells the story of a young girl and her troublesome teenagehood filled with abuse, loneliness and the need to heal. Even if it is through the context of a literary work, the novel seeks to be taken seriously, demanding a corporeal presence from the reader. The first part of the following paper describes how the work addresses both Celtic and Post-Celtic Tiger, modernist and postmodernist challenges while creating an innovative style of its own. The second part analyses how language operates through various narrative devices in A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, showing the connections with the body, aspects of the reading process itself and stylistic elements
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Developmental psychology · Girl · Linguistics · Communication · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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