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A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world [1] or milieu to include a context (especially
Though the books of Forrest Reid (1875–1947) are not well known today, he has been labelled 'the first Ulster novelist of European stature', and comparisons have been drawn between his own coming of age novel of Protestant Belfast, Following Darkness (1912), and James Joyce's seminal novel of growing up in Catholic Dublin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Forrest Reid (24 June 1875, Belfast, Ireland; 4 January 1947, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator.He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Young Tom.
John Boyd (1912–2002) [1] was a Northern Irish teacher, radio producer, and playwright. [1] [2] Noted for his ability to reproduce the speech of working class Belfast, he has been described as Northern Ireland's most important playwright, [2] and encouraged the careers of other writers including Seamus Heaney and Stewart Parker.
Pages in category "Novels set in Belfast" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... This page was last edited on 12 February 2017, at 21:05 (UTC).
Novels set in Belfast (17 P) Pages in category "Novels set in Northern Ireland" ... This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 01:44 (UTC).
Michael Magee (born May 1990), [1] also known as Michael Nolan, [2] is a writer from Northern Ireland. His first novel, Close to Home , won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards , and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.
Unique to the 'Belfast Edition' and 'Dublin variant' are a few printing errors, such as the absence of a signature on page one and [ 16 ] on page [ 160 ]. [1] Other errors are 'Nineteenth' rather than 'Ninetieth' on the 'Contents Page' and on page 171 for the title of the poem "The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Pslam" and finally on page 188 "A Dedication to G**** H*****, Efq;" is printed ...