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Essays on John McGahern - Assessing a literacy legacy (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern
scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has
assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an
event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning
in Ireland. The reason why so many people felt his loss so keenly
is probably due to the fact that McGahern's attention to detail,
his feel for landscape, his understanding of the Irish psyche, his
carefully chiselled prose, his love of social and religious
rituals, all contributed to his remarkable evocation of what it was
like to live in Ireland at a specific time in its evolution - that
is to say, from the time of independence up to the beginning of the
new millennium. This is a multidisciplinary collection which
situates McGahern in his literary context and explains the
ingredients that make him such a revered writer, one who had his
finger firmly on the pulse of the nation. Violence, love and
desire, ecology, memory, friendship, photography, rage, sin, are
examined with a view to assessing how they are pertinent to
McGahern's work and the extent to which they contribute to his
literary legacy. Declan Kiberd speaks from personal experience of
the young writer who taught in Belgrove National School and was
fascinated with cricket, whereas Donal Ryan describes how reading
McGahern almost caused him to abandon his literary vocation because
of his belief that he could never write like this master of prose.
There is something in this book for both the specialist and
non-specialist alike and it is essential reading for anyone with
even a passing interest in McGahern the man and writer. Derek Hand
is Head of the School of English at Dublin City University and
Eamon Maher is a Lecturer in Technological University Dublin
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Imprint: |
Cork University Press
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Country of origin: |
Ireland |
Release date: |
March 2019 |
Editors: |
Derek Hand
• Eamon Maher
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
244 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78205-329-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-78205-329-8 |
Barcode: |
9781782053293 |
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