Empathy in Exile: Edna O’Brien, Donal Ryan and the Contemporary Irish Novel
This paper explores how empathy and exile are represented as narrative strategies in Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs and Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea. I argue that post-Celtic Tiger economy novels of the recent past are turning to a more global, universal and empathic Irishness in orde...
Main Author: | Kaitlin Thurlow |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2020-06-01
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Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/11756 |
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