Essays on John McGahern : Assessing a literacy legacy /

This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason why so many pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maher, Eamon (Editor ), Hand, Derek (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
McGahern, John, > 1934-2006 > Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : John McGahern: impossible things / Declan Kiberd
  • Introduction / Derek Hand and Eamon Maher
  • Mapping literary strategies. John McGahern and 'Irish writing' : from The dark to amongst women / Denis Sampson
  • 'Not even a shadow of violence' : undead history in John McGahern's Anglo-Irish stories / Richard Robinson
  • Love and Desire in John McGahern's Fiction : Searching for 'All Sorts of Impossible Things' / Sylvie Mikowski
  • Evening in Cootehall : reading John McGahern's late style / Eamonn Wall
  • A child is being beaten : anatomy of reaction to the dark / Niamh Campbell
  • Images of place and the role of memory. Ecology, time and scale in That they may face the rising sun and Memoir / Eóin Flannery
  • 'The purity of feeling [...] [of] the remembered "I"' : remembrance, atonement and celebration in John McGahern's The Leavetaking / Claudia Luppino
  • 'The sky above us' : John McGahern, 'the image' and Paul Butler's photographs of County Leitrim / Anne Goarzin
  • A dub in Leitrim : McGahern as seen through the camera lens / Paul Butler
  • Friendship, anger and sexual repression. 'My sweet guide' : Friends and friendship in the fiction of John McGahern / Máire Doyle
  • McGahern's rages / Joe Cleary
  • Sins of the flesh : problematic sexuality in McGahern and François Mauriac / Eamon Maher
  • Afterword : from out of The dark: John McGahern and truth / Donal Ryan.

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