Bridget English: 1 book

Book cover of Laying Out the Bones

Laying Out the Bones

Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright

by Bridget English
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

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. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides...
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