Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction [Hardcover]

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction discusses the representations of place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008. It includes novels and short stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Donal Ryan, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Barry, Gerard Donovan, Danielle McLaughlin, Trisha McKinney, Billy OCallaghan and Colum McCann. In the light of writings by geographers, anthropologists and philosophers such as Doreen Massey, Tim Ingold, Giorgio Agamben and Jeff Malpas, this book looks at the metamorphoses of place and landscape representations in fiction by confirmed or debut authors, in the aftermath of a crisis with deep economic as well as cultural consequences for Irish society. It shows what place and landscape representations reveal of the past, while discussing the way notions such as boundedness, openness and emergence can contribute to thinking out space and place and designing future landscapes.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reprocessing landscapes in William Trevors At Olivehill

Chapter 2: Challenging containment in Dermot Bolgers A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)

Chapter 3: From lust to bust: landscapes of desire in Anne Enrights The Forgotten Waltz

Chapter 4: Between degeneration and regeneration: the crumbling of place in Donal Ryans The Spinning Heart

Chapter 5: Trying the beast: in ThlS´