Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction Silences that Speak

This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study ackn...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Series:New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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