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Paperback Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel Book

ISBN: 0815635362

ISBN13: 9780815635369

Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel

(Part of the Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press Series)

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English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides insight into Ireland's cultural and historical experience of death. Combining key concepts from narrative theory--such as readers' competing desires for...

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