John Mcgahern: critical essays

by Bargroff, Adam Mullen, Jennifer Mullen, Raymond

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This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have not yet received due critical attention. The book also has a focus on topics and issues in McGahern's writing that have been overlooked, thus extending the critical discourse on this important Irish author. The contributors to the volume range fro…

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Full title :John Mcgahern : critical essays / Raymond Mullen, Adam Bargroff, Jennifer Mullen, eds.

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Publication Date:©2014

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Publisher(s):Peter Lang AG
Place of Publication:Bern, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

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Description:1 online resource (262 pages).

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ISBN:9783035306064, 3035306060, 3034317557, 9783034317559
oclc:ocn882243012
LC Classification:PR6063.A2176
Dewey Decimal:823.914

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Raymond Mullen and Adam Bargroff Introduction; Antonella Trombatore Communicating with Nature: An Ecosemiotic Reading of Elizabeth's Umwelt in The Barracks; Maggie Pernot-Deschamps Habits and Rituals in The Barracks; Bridget English 'All real seeing grew into smiling [...] all else was death, a refusal, a turning back': Narrative, Death and Subjectivity in The Barracks; Paula McDonald The Literary and Empirical Origins of McGahern's Ecological Consciousness; Brendan Thomas Mitchell Emergence of the Self: McGahern and Joyce

Fergal Casey Camus's Philosophy of Revolt in The Leavetaking and The PornographerChristine O'Dowd-Smyth The Caretakers of the Condition of 'nothing new being possible': Post-Colonial Landscapes of Peripherality in McGahern's Amongst Women and Abdelhak Serhane's Le Soleil des obscurs; Nicholas Collins '[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net': King Lear and McGahern's Family in Amongst Women; Jennifer Mullen The Law of the Father: Tyrannical Fathers and Rebellious Sons in McGahern's Amongst Women and Driss Chraïbi's Le Passé simple

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