John McGahern and the imagination of tradition / Stanley van der Ziel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van der Ziel, Stanley, author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McGahern, John, 1934-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

McGahern, John.

McGahern, John, 1934-2006.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2016.

Summary:

John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. This new book on McGahern's fiction argues how he was not only an acute social commentator but also an intelligent and perceptive reader interested in the nature and function of literature, It presents McGahern as a highly literary writer aware of the various literary traditions he had inherited, and shows how his imagination was shaped by his lifelong immersion in Irish, English and European literature. Drawing on archival material as well as on original close readings of his fiction, Stanley van der Ziel examines how McGahern's reading of classic books and authors determined the concerns of his novels and stones, by placing some key elements of McGahern's aesthetic in their appropriate literary contexts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Shakespearean Antics 24

2 An Augustan Sensibility 53

3 A Romantic Imagination 82

4 The Limits of Realism 116

5 A Modernist Mind I: Proustian Thought and Forms 151

6 A Modernist Mind II: After Yeats and Joyce 181

7 Post-war Philosophies 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781782051640

1782051643

OCLC:

910535515

Publisher Number:

99967053331