Touchstones: John Mcgahern''s Classical Style

Informationen zum Autor Frank Shovlin is Professor in Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and the author of Journey Westward Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival (LUP, 2012) Klappentext Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As such, new insights are provided into McGahern's admiration and use of writers as diverse as Dante Alighieri, William Blake, James Joyce, Albert Camus and several others. Evidence for these claims is found both through close reading of McGahern's published texts as well as unprecedented sleuthing in his extensive archive of papers held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The ultimate intention of the book is to draw attention to the very literary and writerly nature of McGahern as an artist, and to place him, not just as a great Irish writer, but as part of a long and venerable European tradition. Zusammenfassung Touchstones examines the literary influences that led to John McGahern becoming Ireland's greatest fiction writer of the post-war generation.

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• Authors: Frank Shovlin, Frank (The Institute of Irish Studies Shovlin, Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies Frank (U Shovlin, Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies Frank (University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies Shovlin
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781781383216
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-321-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies