Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel Carol Bowlby Sifton Stefanik Elementary School

Stefanik Elementary School

one even going to the Supreme Court

and Gordon Bearn

into the so-called "modern synthesis" and beyond

Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel Carol Bowlby Sifton Stefanik Elementary SchoolThe desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the past, so too have Irish authors evolved in their response to, and literary uses of, trauma. In Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty First Century Irish Novel, Costello Sullivan considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing