TY - JOUR AU - Szűcs, Orsolya PY - 2021/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Language, Being and the Body in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing JF - Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies JA - Belgrade BELLS VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES DO - 10.18485/bells.2021.13.12 UR - https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/index.php/belgrade-bells/article/view/bells-2021-13-12 SP - 265-284 AB - <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,&nbsp; aspects of the reading process itself and stylistic elements.</p> ER -