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Discusses some of Koch's novels with focus on the notion of crossing boundaries and entering new spaces, where transformation of identities is possible. Using sea travel and the sea wall as a boundary which serves to prevent a crossing, the novels focus on liminal spaces, but the transformative potential of such liminal spaces is rarely fulfilled. The notion of 'crossing over' 'serves to help understand Koch's fiction as a unified body of work' (231), representing a coherent vision despite shifts in focus and emphasis.
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Christopher Koch : Crossing Sea Walls
Subjects:
- The Boys in the Island 1958 single work novel
- Highways to a War 1995 single work novel
- The Year of Living Dangerously 1978 single work novel
- Across the Sea Wall 1965 single work novel
- Out of Ireland 1999 single work novel
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