{"product_id":"the-corpse-in-modern-irish-literature-9781836244837","title":"The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge's sodden corpses and Joyce's dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's talking corpses and the unburied and dissected remains of Celtic Tiger fiction, the figure of the corpse is ubiquitous in Irish writing. This collection examines the Irish corpse as a conceptually rich centrepoint with multiple differently signifying implications across this historical period as expressed in different social, political and creative contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking Irish literature's obsession with death as its starting point, \u003cem\u003eThe Corpse in Modern Irish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the wide-ranging implications of this fixation, extending it through the contexts of the tragedies of the Irish past and the emergence of new identities in the wake of colonial modernity. In their range of authors and genres from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters bring into focus patterns of change and continuity and extend current understanding of the Gothic mode, the national tale, the Irish modernist novel, Irish-language poetry, the elegiac mode, comic and tragic revivalist writings and the generic complexity of autofiction and contemporary fiction. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eThe Corpse in Modern Irish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e makes a significant intervention in Irish studies, Gothic studies, death studies and medical and health humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReznicek, Matthew L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he co-coordinates the Certificate for Arts and Humanities in Medicine. He has published widely on Irish literature from the long nineteenth century. He currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCusack, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eChristopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph \u003ci\u003eThe Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglish, Bridget:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBridget English (University of Illinois at Chicago) is the author of \u003ci\u003eLaying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel\u003c\/i\u003e and a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eEthical Crossroads in Literary Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127726207250,"sku":"9781836244837","price":186.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a822e366-bfab-4af5-b149-93f108d85cb6.jpg?v=1773745368","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-corpse-in-modern-irish-literature-9781836244837","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}