Sally Rooney : Perspectives and Approaches

Scheible, Ellen (EDT); Devine, Barry (EDT); Bracken, Claire (FRW); Barros-del Río, María Amor (CON); Slivka, Jennifer A. (CON)

ISBN 10: 1684486033 / ISBN 13: 9781684486038

Edité par Bucknell University Press, 2026

N° de réf. du vendeur 52533366-n

Synopsis :

Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical readings of Rooney's influential novels, alongside adaptable strategies for teaching her work in today's undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The essays situate Rooney within literary traditions from Romantic poetry to the bildungsroman and the contemporary campus novel, while engaging with contemporary topics such as gender politics, late capitalism, and media adaptation. Providing accessible yet rigorous frameworks for exploring Rooney's fiction, this volume confirms her significance not only within contemporary literary studies but also as a cultural force whose work reaffirms the relevance of the humanities in the twenty-first-century classroom.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

À propos de l'auteur:

Ellen Scheible is a professor of English and director of honors at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland and coeditor of Rethinking Joyce's "Dubliners."

Barry Devine is an associate professor of English at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. His recent work appears in The Cambridge Centenary "Ulysses" and The Irish Bildungsroman.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Sally Rooney : Perspectives and Approaches
Éditeur : Bucknell University Press
Date d'édition : 2026
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New