John McGahern : authority and vision / / edited by Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle

• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 823.914
• Soggetto topico: Literature; Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Biography: literary
• Soggetto genere / forma: Hochschulschrift; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Denis Sampson; Irish themes; John McGahern; afterlife; compassion; disillusionment; evil; family experience; human propensity; identity shaping; liberal education; openness; personality through language; physical landscape; resentment; revolutionary memories; strangeness; vision of education
• Persona (resp. second.): DoyleMáire; DoljaninŽeljka
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: John McGahern
• ISBN: 1-5261-3958-8; 1-5261-3232-X; 1-5261-0505-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796388403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II