Ghost Stories, Ghost Estates: Melancholia in Irish Recession Literature
This article considers representations of melancholia in post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature. By situating their post-recession fictions in “ghost estates,” or largely uninhabited housing developments, Donal Ryan and Tana French present neoliberally-inflected varieties of melancholia for their contem...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-01-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | http://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/16 |