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dc.contributor.authorMoynihan, SB
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-03T12:16:23Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-13
dc.description.abstractThis essay identifies the seaside resort as an important space in Irish fiction of the past forty years. Specifically, it argues that just as British and Irish seaside resorts were undergoing profound transformation – what John K. Walton refers to as “the traumatic changes of the 1970s and 1980s” (3) – the seaside resort emerges in Irish fiction as the backdrop for various kinds of personal and social rupture, ranging from adolescence, mental breakdown, marital break-up, spousal death and suicide to the social transformations we associate with modernity: emigration, internal migration, suburbanisation and secularisation. The essay focuses predominantly on Irish fiction’s most insistent bard of the seaside, Neil Jordan, who locates almost all of his fictional and filmic work in Irish seaside towns. After discussing Jordan’s work, the essay expands the analysis to other paeans to the Irish seaside resort in order to demonstrate the sheer range of contemporary Irish writers for whom the seaside is an important location, and to suggest directions for future study.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 57 (3), pp. 310 - 322en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00111619.2015.1078764
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/21821
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonPublisher policyen_GB
dc.subjectSeaside resorten_GB
dc.subjectNeil Jordanen_GB
dc.subjectcontemporary Irish fictionen_GB
dc.subjectarchipelagicen_GB
dc.title“Empty, Musing, Poignant”: Rupture, Nostalgia and the Seaside Resort in Contemporary Irish Fictionen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn0011-1619
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalCritique: Studies in Contemporary Fictionen_GB


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