Marcella O'Connor

University College Cork, English, Graduate Student

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MA Thesis by Marcella O'Connor

Time in Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Fiction

This thesis will argue that time is central in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish fiction because her novels... more This thesis will argue that time is central in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish fiction because her novels and stories constitute a metafictional account of the dispossessed Anglo-Irish identity in the twentieth century. Within this account, Bowen interrogates the connection between narrative and identity. The relationship of character to setting, and the relationship of character to others, are mediated by the force of time. Because of the problematic nature of Anglo-Irish identity, Bowen drew inspiration from surrealism and warped the experience of time in her fiction in order to disrupt ontological stability in the narrative.

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