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Touchstones : John McGahern's classical style / Frank Shovlin.
Van Pelt Library PR6063.A2176 Z85 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shovlin, Frank, author.
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 68.
- Liverpool English texts and studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McGahern, John, 1934-2006--Criticism and interpretation.
- McGahern, John.
- McGahern, John, 1934-2006.
- English literature--Irish authors--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 We Other Clerks: James Joyce and the Classical Temper 19
- 2 A Walking Mirror: Stendhal, Horace, Nietzsche 34
- 3 One Lone Paperback: Tolstoy and Religious Sensibility 47
- 4 Magic: The Generality of W. B. Yeats 58
- 5 Instinct: Douglas Stewart and Sex 76
- 6 The Fume of Muscatel: Yeats's Ghosts 87
- 7 Bohemian Rhapsody: Patrick Kavanagh and Generation X 97
- 8 Absurdity: Camus Comes to Clones 114
- 9 Aristocracy: Andrew Marvell, W. B. Yeats and the Curse of Cromwell 123
- 10 The Consolations of Nothingness: "William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Prayer 135
- 11 Deliberate Happiness: W. B. Yeats and the Inner Life 149
- 12 Stranger in Paradise: Dante and Epic Style 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781781383216
- 1781383219
- OCLC:
- 949750887
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