{"product_id":"laying-out-the-bones-death-and-dying-in-the-modern-irish-novel-from-james-joyce-to-anne-enright-9780815635369","title":"Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnglish 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 a story and for closure--with Irish cultural analyses and literary criticism, English performs astute close readings of death in select novels by Joyce, Beckett, Kate O'Brien, John McGahern, and Anne Enright. With each chapter, she demonstrates how novelistic narrative serves as a way of mediating between the physical facts of death and its lasting impact on the living. English suggests that while Catholic conceptions of death have always been challenged by alternative secular value systems, these systems have also struggled to find meaningful alternatives to the consolation offered by religious conceptions of the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bridget English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Publications in Continuin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 6.98w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815635369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBridget English \u003c\/b\u003eholds a PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland. She researches and teaches Irish literary and cultural studies, Modernism, and the Medical Humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Publications in Continuin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40512718274675,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d91b011a-d8db-4a25-9911-55884269fcfd.jpg?v=1665666998","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/laying-out-the-bones-death-and-dying-in-the-modern-irish-novel-from-james-joyce-to-anne-enright-9780815635369","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}