{"product_id":"samuel-beckett-and-recent-irish-fiction","title":"Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009–2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’s \u003cem\u003eTrilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMercier and Camier\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFootfalls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNot I\u003c\/em\u003e, and those of a range of post-crash Irish novels including \u003cem\u003eBeatlebone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHawthorn and Child\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, this book establishes Beckett’s continuing influence on Irish fiction. With particular reference to these newer authors’ treatment of scarcity, trauma, indeterminism, gender and sexuality, and confinement in the context of major societal changes and traumas in Irish society since 2009, topics include the imposition of austerity, collapse of faith in institutions, and the increasing recognition of LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260110610776,"sku":"9781032468914","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032468914.jpg?v=1780037140","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/samuel-beckett-and-recent-irish-fiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}