John McGahern

John McGahern: Authority and vision

by Doljanin, Željka Doyle, Máire

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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.

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  • Full title :John McGahern : Authority and vision / Željka Doljanin, Máire Doyle.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2017.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781526105059, 1526105055, 9781526105066, 1526105063, 1526139588, 9781526139580
  • DOI:10.7765/9781526105059
  • oclc:on1012138557
  • LC Classification:PR6063.A2176
  • Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Table of Contents

'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 / Melvy…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- European LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English… McGahern, John

Writers

Doljanin, Željka Doyle, Máire

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