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John McGahern : authority and vision / edited by Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McGahern, John, 1934-2006--Criticism and interpretation.
- McGahern, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Maire 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 republican nationalism: an ethical reading / Ciaran Ross
- 6. 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 / Maire 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. Lived narrative versus the learned narrative / Linden MacIntyre
- 14. Inside McGahern's workshop / Paula Meehan
- 15. John McGahern / Melvyn Bragg
- 16. interview with John McGahern / Stanley van der Ziel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 7, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526139580
- 1526139588
- 9781526132321
- 152613232X
- 9781526105059
- 1526105055
- OCLC:
- 1273306791
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