Irish Short Story
Irish Short Story Often hailed as a 'national genre', the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. This definition fails to…
Specifikacia Irish Short Story
Irish Short Story
Often hailed as a 'national genre', the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. This definition fails to do justice to the richness and variety of short stories published in Ireland since the 1850s. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception of it as a realist form, used to depict quintessential truths about Ireland and Irish identity.
The essays gathered here consider the diverse national and international influences on the Irish short story and investigate its genealogy. This collection aims to open up the critical debate on the Irish short story to the many different concerns, influences and innovations by which it has been formed. They recover the short fiction of writers neglected in previous literary histories and highlight unexpected