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UNINA9910796388403321 |
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Titolo |
John McGahern : authority and vision / / edited by Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-3958-8 |
1-5261-3232-X |
1-5261-0505-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature |
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Biography: literary |
Hochschulschrift |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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