Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)

This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of stream...

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Autor principal:	Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
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Publicado:	Universidad de Valladolid 2021
Materias:	Mike McCormack experimental writing hauntology stream of consciousness Celtic Tiger English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fc4d26fa390f4609b4d9b41b98e46f1b2021-11-11T12:48:16ZSpectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.81-1032531-16462531-1654https://doaj.org/article/fc4d26fa390f4609b4d9b41b98e46f1b2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/5616https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1646https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1654 This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of streams of consciousness, and Derrida’s hauntology, this article argues that McCormack’s novel charts tensions of coherence and collapse in post-Celtic Tiger fiction. The narration takes place within a post- perspective as Marcus’s ghost brings it into existence. The experimentation with streams of post-consciousness and spectrality provides McCormack with valid aesthetic mechanisms to respond in fiction to Celtic Tiger concerns. Asier Altuna-García de SalazarUniversidad de ValladolidarticleMike McCormackexperimental writinghauntologystream of consciousnessCeltic TigerEnglish languagePE1-3729English literaturePR1-9680ENES Review, Iss 42 (2021)
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description	This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of streams of consciousness, and Derrida’s hauntology, this article argues that McCormack’s novel charts tensions of coherence and collapse in post-Celtic Tiger fiction. The narration takes place within a post- perspective as Marcus’s ghost brings it into existence. The experimentation with streams of post-consciousness and spectrality provides McCormack with valid aesthetic mechanisms to respond in fiction to Celtic Tiger concerns.
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title	Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)
title_short	Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)
title_full	Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)
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Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)

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