John McGahern : Authority and vision /: Authority and vision. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Željka Doljanin, Máire Doyle.
• Editors: Doljanin, Željka; Doyle, Máire
• Contents: ‘The Woodpile’ (original poem) – Paula Meehan; 1 Introduction – Željka Doljanin and Máire 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 Republicanism: an ethical reading – Ciaran Ross; 6 The stranger in the fiction of John McGahern – Željka 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 – Máire 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 The lived narrative versus the learned narrative – Linden MacIntyre; 14 Inside McGahern’s workshop – Paula Meehan; 15 John McGahern – Melvyn Bragg; 16 An interview with John McGahern – Stanley van der Ziel; Afterword – Declan Kiberd; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories; Biography: Literary; Literary Studies: From C 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526105066; 1526105063
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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