John McGahern: Authority and vision

✍ Scribed by Željka Doljanin; Máire Doyle (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 boundaries of the McGahern debate.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
The Woodpile
Introduction
X: A Quarterly Review and McGahern’s modernism
John McGahern: landscape and the lost republic
Hand-rails to the past: McGahern and the memory of the Irish revolution
‘What was it all for?’ John McGahern’s critique of Irish republican nationalism: an ethical reading
The stranger in the fiction of John McGahern
John McGahern’s ‘Oldfashioned’ and Anglo-Irish culture
Learning to love the world: the educational vision of John McGahern
Love and sex: McGahern’s personal and detached reflections
Love and the world: marriage and McGahern’s late vision
‘Extraordinary breathing space’: afterlife vision and redemption in the work of John McGahern
Writing violence: John McGahern and Flannery O’Connor
The lived narrative versus the learned narrative
Inside McGahern’s workshop
John McGahern
An interview with John McGahern
Afterword
Select bibliography
Index

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