Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Opening up landscapes : renegotiating places in William Trevor’s ‘At Olivehill’ (2007) and Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)
Chapter 1: Reprocessing landscapes in William Trevor’s ‘At Olivehill’
Chapter 2: Challenging containment in Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life: A Renewed Novel (2010)
Part II: Metamorphoses of landscape in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz and Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart
Chapter 3: From lust to bust: landscapes of desire in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz
Chapter 4: Between degeneration and regeneration: the crumbling of place in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart
Part III: Landscapes of the future in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy and in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Chapter 5: Trying the beast: in The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
Chapter 6: Placing nostalgia in the City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Part IV: In-between landscapes : short stories of the seaside and the poetics of hope in Colum McCann’s fiction.
Chapter 7: On the edge: seascapes in five contemporary Irish short stories.
Chapter 8: Mapping the contemporary: place and movement
Chapter 9: Being between: Inhabiting the present