@article{Szűcs_2021, place={Belgrade, Serbia}, title={Language, Being and the Body in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing}, volume={13}, url={https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/index.php/belgrade-bells/article/view/bells-2021-13-12}, DOI={10.18485/bells.2021.13.12}, abstractNote={<p>Presence and participation are key aspects in McBride’s narrative; it allows the reader to access the point where thought becomes language so that it is still closely linked to the experiencing body. It tells the story of a young girl and her troublesome teenagehood filled with abuse, loneliness and the need to heal. Even if it is through the context of a literary work, the novel seeks to be taken seriously, demanding a corporeal presence from the reader. The first part of the following paper describes how the work addresses both Celtic and Post-Celtic Tiger, modernist and postmodernist challenges while creating an innovative style of its own. The second part analyses how language operates through various narrative devices in <em>A Girl is a Half-formed Thing</em>, showing the connections with the body,  aspects of the reading process itself and stylistic elements.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies}, author={Szűcs, Orsolya}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={265–284} }