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John McGahern and Modernism

Af: Dr Richard Robinson Engelsk Paperback

John McGahern and Modernism

Af: Dr Richard Robinson Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350075122
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1350075124
Kategori: Irland
Udg. Dato: 28 jun 2018
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 28 jun 2018
Forfatter(e): Dr Richard Robinson
Forfatter(e) Dr Richard Robinson


Kategori Irland


ISBN-13 9781350075122


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 17mm


Bredde 235mm


Højde 158mm


Udg. Dato 28 jun 2018


Oplagsdato 28 jun 2018


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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