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This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate.
List of contents
'The Woodpile' (original poem) - Paula Meehan
1 Introduction - Zeljka 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 - 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 - 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
About the author
Zeljka Doljanin is Director of the University College Dublin Writing Centre
Máire Doyle is a Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), Dublin
Summary
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate. -- .
