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Religion and Spirituality in Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are you
Málková, Daniela ; Theinová, Daniela (advisor) ; Wallace, Clare (referee)
Thesis Abstract Although Eimear McBride and Sally Rooney seem to have little in common in terms of their writing style and themes, they share a critical outlook on the influence that Catholic Church has had on generations of Irish people. Religion is not a prevalent theme in their work, but their characters are to an extent influenced by the legacy of Irish Catholicism and while McBride has a negative approach to her main character's faith, Rooney engages in debate whether Catholic faith is feasible in the twenty-first century or not. They both have an original approach to storytelling and language use and in many respects break traditional novelistic conventions. This thesis examines how McBride and Rooney combine religion with politics (and psychology) in their writings, how Ireland's religious history influences them, and how the formal elements of their prose work in harmony with their narrative strategies. The second chapter focuses on McBride and her exceptional use of the stream of consciousness. While she was not even close to being the first to use it, McBride made fragmented nature of this narrative technique her own. The degree to which the expression becomes chaotic and syntax distorted, alternates between various parts of the text, which highlight how the main character, Girl, who remains...
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