This 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 Trilogy, Mercier and Camier, Footfalls and Not I, and those of a range of post-crash Irish novels including Beatlebone, Hawthorn and Child, Room, and A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, 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 LGBTQI+ and reproductive rights.

About the Author

David McKinney completed his PhD in 2016 at University College Dublin. He has taught Irish Studies and English Literature in the Schools of Irish and English at University College Dublin, and teaches research practice, cultural theory, and creativity in the British and Irish Institute of Modern Music.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032468907
Author David McKinney
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd