Essays on John McGahern : assessing a literacy legacy / Derek Hand & Eamon Maher [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hand, Derek, editor.

Maher, Eamon, editor.

Project Muse.

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

McGahern, John.

McGahern, John, 1934-2006.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword : John McGahern: impossible things / Declan Kiberd

Introduction / Derek Hand and Eamon Maher

Mapping literary strategies. John McGahern and 'Irish writing' : from The dark to amongst women / Denis Sampson

'Not even a shadow of violence' : undead history in John McGahern's Anglo-Irish stories / Richard Robinson

Love and Desire in John McGahern's Fiction : Searching for 'All Sorts of Impossible Things' / Sylvie Mikowski

Evening in Cootehall : reading John McGahern's late style / Eamonn Wall

A child is being beaten : anatomy of reaction to the dark / Niamh Campbell

Images of place and the role of memory. Ecology, time and scale in That they may face the rising sun and Memoir / Eóin Flannery

'The purity of feeling [...] [of] the remembered "I"' : remembrance, atonement and celebration in John McGahern's The Leavetaking / Claudia Luppino

'The sky above us' : John McGahern, 'the image' and Paul Butler's photographs of County Leitrim / Anne Goarzin

A dub in Leitrim : McGahern as seen through the camera lens / Paul Butler

Friendship, anger and sexual repression. 'My sweet guide' : Friends and friendship in the fiction of John McGahern / Máire Doyle

McGahern's rages / Joe Cleary

Sins of the flesh : problematic sexuality in McGahern and François Mauriac / Eamon Maher

Afterword : from out of The dark: John McGahern and truth / Donal Ryan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on April 18, 2019).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781782053279

1782053271

Publisher Number:

99983497555

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