John McGahern: critical essays

by Bargroff, Adam Mullen, Jennifer, (Lecturer in French) Mullen, Raymond

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Full title :John McGahern : critical essays / Raymond Mullen, Adam Bargroff and Jennifer Mullen (eds.).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 243 pages ; : 23 cm.

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ISBN:9783034317559, 3034317557
oclc:ocn877851086
LC Classification:PR6063.A2176
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Communicating with nature : an ecosemiotic reading of Elizabeth's Umwelt in The Barracks / Antonella Trombatore -- Habits and rituals in The Barracks / Maggie Pernot-Deschamps -- 'All real seeing grew into smiling ... all else was death, a refusal, a turning back' : narrative, death and subjectivity in The Barracks / Bridget English -- The literary and empirical origins of McGahern's ecological consciousness / Paula McDonald -- Emergence of the self : McGahern and Joyce / Brendan Thomas Mitchell -- Camus's philosophy of revolt in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer / Fergal Casey -- 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 / Christine O'Dowd-Smyth -- '[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net' : King Lear and McGahern's family in Amongst Women / Nicholas Collins -- The law of the father : tyrannical fathers and rebellious sons in McGahern's Amongst Women and Driss Chraïbi's Le Passé simple / Jennifer Mullen -- The fact is a fiction : representations of memory, place and modernity in Friel and McGahern's short stories / Graham Price -- Gossip…