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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2018  
         
  Article:   REVIEWING FAMILY HISTORY: RECENT IRISH FICTION AND THE AVATARS OF MEMORY.

Authors:  VIRGIL STANCIU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
Reviewing Family History: Recent Irish Fiction and the Avatars of Memory. This article endeavours to demonstrate that in the fiction produced by writers of Irish origin towards the end of the 20th century a discernible feature is the renewed interest in history, this time not in the great historical upheavals that have always fascinated novelists and playwrights, but rather in the “little histories”of individuals and families. Sewn together, these patches of family history can be seen as being an unofficial (fictional?) biography of the nation.

Keywords: fictional biography, imagined past, multi-layered form
 
         
     
         
         
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