Touchstones: John McGahern's classical style

by Shovlin, Frank

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Full title :Touchstones : John McGahern's classical style / Frank Shovlin.

Summary

Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As such, new insights are provided into McGahern's admiration and use of writers as diverse as Dante Alighieri, William Blake, James Joyce, Albert Camus and several others. Evidence for these claims is found both through close reading of McGahern's published texts as well as unprecedented sleuthing in his extensive archive of papers held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The ultimate intention of the book is to draw attention to the very literary and writerly nature of McGahern as an artist, and to place him, not just as a great Irish writer, but as part of a long and venerable European tradition. --Amazon.com

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:Liverpool
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 200 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781383216, 1781383219
oclc:ocn949750887
LC Classification:PR6063.A2176
Dewey Decimal:823.914 (MACG)

We Other Clerks: James Joyce and the Classical Temper -- A Walking Mirror: Stendhal, Horace, Nietzsche -- One Lone Paperback: Tolstoy and Religious Sensibility -- Magic: The Generality of W. B. Yeats -- Instinct: Douglas Stewart and Sex -- The Fume of Muscatel: Yeats's Ghosts -- Bohemian Rhapsody: Patrick Kavanagh and Generation X -- Absurdity: Camus Comes to Clones -- Aristocracy: Andrew Marvell, W. B. Yeats and the Curse of Cromwell -- The Consolations of Nothingness: "William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Prayer -- Deliberate Happiness: W. B. Yeats and the Inner Life -- Stranger in Paradise: Dante and Epic Style.

Subjects

Books and reading Criticism, interpretation, etc English literature -- Irish authors English literature -- Irish authors -- … Lektüre Littérature anglaise -- Auteurs irlanda… McGahern, John Poetik