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John McGahern : Authority and vision /
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundarie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'The Woodpile' (original poem) / Paula Meehan
- 1. Introduction / Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle
- 2. <i>X: A Quarterly Review</i> and McGahern's modernism / Tom Walker
- 3. John McGahern: landscape and the lost Republic / Nicholas Allen
- 4. Hand-rails to the past: McGahern and the memory of the Irish revolution / R. F. (Roy) Foster
- 5. 'What was it all for?': John McGahern's critique of Irish Republicanism: an ethical reading / Ciaran Ross
- 6. The stranger in the fiction of John McGahern / Željka Doljanin
- 7. John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture / David Clare
- 8. Learning to love the world: the educational vision of John McGahern / Kevin Williams
- 9. Love and sex: McGahern's personal and detached reflections / Tom Inglis
- 10. Love and the world: marriage and McGahern's late vision / Máire Doyle
- 11. 'Extraordinary breathing space': afterlife vision and redemption in the work of John McGahern / Catriona Clutterbuck
- 12. Writing violence: John McGahern and Flannery O'Connor / Frank McGuinness
- 13. The lived narrative versus the learned narrative / Linden MacIntyre
- 14. Inside McGahern's workshop / Paula Meehan
- 15. John McGahern / Melvyn Bragg
- 16. An interview with John McGahern / Stanley van der Ziel
- Afterword / Declan Kiberd
- Index.