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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Doyle, Máire (Editor ), Doljanin, Željka (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Maire Doyle
  • 2. X: A Quarterly Review 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 republican nationalism: an ethical reading / Ciaran Ross
  • 6. Stranger in the fiction of John McGahern / Zeljka 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 / Maire 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. Lived narrative versus the learned narrative / Linden MacIntyre
  • 14. Inside McGahern's workshop / Paula Meehan
  • 15. John McGahern / Melvyn Bragg
  • 16. interview with John McGahern / Stanley van der Ziel.