Guest Lecture: Dr. Maureen O'Connor (University College Cork/University of Würzburg), "Haunted Nature in the Fiction of Edna O'Brien" - 30.11.2023

"Novelist Edna O’Brien has come to be considered Ireland’s greatest living writer after decades of political denunciation and critical dismissal in her homeland since her groundbreaking 1960 Bildungsroman, The Country Girls. Beginning in the late 1990s, her work began to be taken seriously by literary critics. Most of the scholarship in O’Brien Studies since that time has comprised feminist and psychoanalytic studies, valuable work in positioning O’Brien in the canon. Building on that foundation, this lecture will bring more recent theoretical approaches to the fiction, including posthumanism and new materialism, with a focus on her controversial 2002 novel, In the Forest. O’Brien’s fiction draws on a childhood spent in a rural landscape alive with fairy lore and mythology, and her consistent representation of the distinction between the animate and the inanimate as tenuous is at once distinctly Irish and richly receptive to posthuman analysis."


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