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John McGahern and Modernism (Hardcover)
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John McGahern and Modernism (Hardcover)
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John McGahern's work is not easily conceived of as belatedly
modernist. His memorialising, faintly archaic style implies a
concern with 'making it old' rather than new, suggesting the
symptomatic diffidence of many who wrote in the wake of modernism.
Nevertheless, McGahern's statements about the 'presence' of words
and the hard-won impersonality of the artwork point to a covert
engagement with modernist aesthetics. Offering intertextual
interpretations of McGahern's six novels, and of thematically
grouped short stories, Richard Robinson reads McGahern's fiction
alongside writing by Joyce, Proust, Yeats, Beckett, Nietzsche,
Lawrence and Chekhov, amongst others. Drawing out the ways in which
McGahern's fiction conceals and reveals its modernist traces, this
study considers subjects such as 'low' modernism, the complexity of
McGahern's time-writing and his dialectical construction of the
relationship between cultural tradition and modernity in Ireland.
McGahern's narratives of melancholic return are often read
psycho-biographically, but they also involve a return to the
remnants of literature, including that of the modernist canon. This
book will be of interest not only to McGahern scholars but also to
those who contemplate the compromised legacies of literary
modernism in late-twentieth century and contemporary writing.
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