John McGahern (eBook)

Authority and vision

Željka Doljanin, Máire Doyle (Herausgeber)

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2017
248 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0506-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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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This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including Roy Foster, Paula Meehan, Frank McGuinness and Melvyn Bragg, along with a previously unpublished McGahern interview, the collection enhances the existing body of criticism, extending the McGahern conversation into new areas and deepening appreciation of the considerable achievements of this great writer.The volume, which also features an original poem by Paula Meehan written in honour of McGahern, will stimulate the interest of students, researchers and general readers of Irish literature and culture.

Autor

Željka Doljanin is Director of the University College Dublin Writing Centre Máire Doyle is a Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), Dublin

Inhalt

‘The Woodpile’ (original poem) – Paula Meehan
1 Introduction – Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle
2 X: A Quarterly Review 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 – Melvyn Bragg
16 An interview with John McGahern – Stanley van der Ziel
Afterword – Declan Kiberd
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.12.2017
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Afterlife • Compassion • Denis Sampson • Disillusionment • Evil • family experience • human propensity • Identity Shaping • Irish themes • John McGahern • Liberal Education • openness • personality through language • Physical Landscape • resentment • revolutionary memories • strangeness • vision of education
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-0506-3 / 1526105063
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0506-6 / 9781526105066