John McGahern -

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Résumé :
'The Woodpile' (original poem) - Paula Meehan 1 Introduction - Zeljka Doljanin and M?ire 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 - 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 - M?ire 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...

Biographie:
Zeljka Doljanin is Director of the University College Dublin Writing Centre M?ire Doyle is a Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), Dublin...

Sommaire:
This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including Roy Foster, Paula Meehan, Frank McGuinness and Melvyn Bragg, along with a previously unpublished McGahern interview, the collection enhances the existing body of criticism, extending the McGahern conversation into new areas and deepening appreciation of the considerable achievements of this great writer. The volume, which also features an original poem by Paula Meehan written in honour of McGahern, will stimulate the interest of students, researchers and general readers of Irish literature and culture....