Author: Orlaith Darling

Orlaith Darling is a PhD candidate in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral project – which examines representations of neoliberalism in contemporary Irish women’s short fiction – is fully funded by the Irish Research Council. Previously, Orlaith obtained an MSc. with Distinction in Literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh (2019) and a BA (Hons.) with first class honours in English Literature and History from Trinity College Dublin (2018), where she was elected Scholar in 2016. She is a co-founder of Contemporary Irish Literature research network (CIL) and co-producer of the The Hublic Sphere Podcast, Season 2. Her work has been published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature, Feminist Media Studies, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Irish Studies Review, Estudios Irlandeses, Rejoinder, FORUM, The Modernist Review and Alluvium, as well as on several academic blogs. She is currently based in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts Humanities Research Institute.
Current Issue Issue 10.2

“Something as definitionally useless as art”: Contemporary Women Writers’ Künstlerromane and the Possibility of a Beautiful World

Orlaith Darling August 8, 2022 No Comments

The Künstlerroman has seen a resurgence of interest among millennial women writers. Describing novels in which the main character progresses toward the creation of art, the Künstlerroman is the perfect vehicle for metafictional interest in creative production—for instance, in the question of whether the novel can at once be imbricated within the market system and level meaningful aesthetic critique against it.

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