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- Title
Autonomy, Naturalism, and Folklore in Claire Keegan's Walk the Blue Fields.
- Authors
Smith, Eoghan
- Abstract
Claire Keegan's 2007 collection Walk the Blue Fields charts the tensions and anxieties of contemporary Ireland, whether that is through the presentation of the waning of individual and collective faith in Catholicism, a damaged, land-obsessed masculinity, the necessities and repercussions of truth-telling about sexual abuse and family breakdown, or a reawakening femininity. In this article I explore the styles and modes of storytelling employed by Keegan in Walk the Blue Fields, and consider how Keegan's work can be contextualized in relation to theories of the short story and the folktale in Ireland, the development of narrative styles of the short story in Ireland, and other Irish practitioners of the short story, both historical and contemporary.
- Subjects
WALK the Blue Fields (Book); KEEGAN, Claire; IRISH short stories; IRISH fiction; IRISH literature; IRISH folklore
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2019, Vol 42, p192
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Literary Criticism