UID:
almahu_9948236331202882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) :
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digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2017. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526105059
Content:
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contributors, including Roy Foster, Paula Meehan, Frank McGuinness and Melvyn Bragg, along with a previously unpublished McGahern interview, the collection enhances the existing body of criticism, extending the McGahern conversation into new areas and deepening appreciation of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.
Content:
"This book explores the work of John McGahern, one of the greatest Irish prose writers of the twentieth century. The fifteen essays collected here address McGahern’s legacy from a range of fresh perspectives drawn from the fields of literary criticism, history, sociology, education, journalism and creative writing. Examining his novels, short stories, memoir and prose writings, these essays interrogate the ways in which his writing responds to key issues in these subject areas. Featuring an afterword by Declan Kiberd and contributions from experts and scholars from a variety of disciplines, along with distinguished writers and cultural practitioners such as Frank McGuinness, Roy Foster, Paula Meehan and Melvyn Bragg, this unique volume both deepens and broadens the McGahern conversation, opening his work to students and readers in a new way. It delivers richly informed insights on the writer’s early career and traces his persistent concerns with style and form, with the task of the writer and with a secular spirituality that manifests itself in ethical concerns about our relationship to our social, cultural and natural environment and the individual’s struggle to find a way to be in the world. The book also includes a late interview with McGahern; a valuable new resource for students, researchers and general readers, illuminating some of the discussions in the preceding essays and providing insights into his approach to literature. The essays in this collection offer demanding but lucid and accessible studies of McGahern’s body of work and will be of interest to students and teachers at all levels of academic study along with the appreciative reader of McGahern’s work." -- Back cover.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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‘The Woodpile’ (original poem) / Paula Meehan -- 1. Introduction / Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle -- 2. 〈i〉X: A Quarterly Review〈/i〉 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.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Doljanin, Željka. John McGahern : authority and vision, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781526100566
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526105059
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526105059/9781526105059.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526105059
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