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- Title
The New Dubliners: Contemporary Irish Short Story Cycles.
- Authors
D'hoker, Elke
- Abstract
This essay examines a number of contemporary Irish short story collections, by Éilís ní dhuibhne, emma donoghue, Colm toíbín, donal Ryan, Gerard donovan, Colin barrett, Christine dwyer Hickey and Adrian Kenny, as instances of the genre of the short story cycle. It argues that this literary form has been gaining wider currency in Irish literature over the past two decades, perhaps as a result of the considerable popularity of short story cycles in Canada and the united States. Against the background of recent theories about the short story cycle, the essay discusses the formal properties of these Irish short story cycles and the specific thematic effects they generate. While some writers use the form to present variations on a theme, or to give a diversified impression of a place and its people, for others it offers a means of moving away from the single-protagonist-driven plot of the novel, staging many different perspectives on a central event. the essay also argues that many of the short story cycles self-consciously display a certain genre awareness, through subtitles or cover blurbs, and testify to a form of "genre memory," by incorporating references to that archetype of Irish short story cycles, Dubliners.
- Subjects
IRISH short stories; IRISH fiction; IRISH literature; IRISH novelists; N Dhuibhne-Almqvist, Eilis, 1954-; DONOGHUE, Emma, 1969-; TOIBIN, Colm, 1955-; RYAN, Donal
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2019, Vol 42, p100
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article