John McGahern (eBook, ePUB)

Authority and vision
Redaktion: Doljanin, Zeljka; Doyle, Máire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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contributors, including Roy Foster, Paula Meehan, Frank McGuinness and Melvyn Bragg, along with a previously unpublished McGahern interview, the collection enhances the existing body of criticism, extending the McGahern conversation into new areas and deepening appreciation of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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105066
• Artikelnr.: 50915561

Autorenporträt

Zeljka 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

Inhaltsangabe

'The Woodpile' (original poem)
Paula Meehan 1 Introduction
Zeljka 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
Zeljka 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