Sally Rooney : Perspectives and Approaches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheible, Ellen.

Series:

Contemporary Irish Writers Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Claire Bracken

Introduction / Ellen Scheible and Barry Devine

Critical Perspectives

1. Youth Struggle and Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland in Sally Rooney's Novels / María Amor Barros-Del Río

2. "Something New and Uncomfortably Familiar": Sally Rooney's Elusive Play with Genre / Jennifer A. Slivka

3. "Bit Hard to Fit In": Sally Rooney and Ireland's Campus Novel / Deirdre Flynn

4. The Relational Novel in an Era of Individualization / Mary M. Mcglynn

5. "Maybe What Keats Meant": Sally Rooney and Romanticism / Colleen English

6. "Two Little Plants Sharing the Same Plot of Soil": Twinned Bildungsromans in Sally Rooney's Normal People / Cassidy Allen

7. "Lockdown Lovers": The Spaces of Television's Normal People / Matthew J. Fee

8. Conversations with Friends and the Queer Comedy of Remarriage / Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

Pedagogical Approaches

9. "I Kind of Suffer from Anxiety with These Things": Disconnect and Emotional Resonance for College Students Reading Sally Rooney's Novels / Molly Ferguson

10. Edited Selves in Sally Rooney's Fiction, or How I Learned to Think Like a Millennial / Rachael Sealy Lynch

11. Moral Injury in Sally Rooney's Normal People / John C. Kerrigan

12. Teaching Narrative Empathy with Beautiful World, Where Are You / Barry Devine

13. Trauma, Writing, and Healing in Sally Rooney's Normal People: A Pedagogical Approach / Melania Terrazas

Coda: Revitalizing the Humanities: Gender, Literature, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rooney's Intermezzo / Kristy Destefano

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Scheible, Ellen Sally Rooney

ISBN:

9781684486045

OCLC:

1592101820