English 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.
Combining key concepts from narrative theory--such as readers\' competing desires for a story and for closure--with Irish cultural anal.
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.
English 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