John McGahern and Modernism
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 Chekho…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-00091-9
- EAN: 9781350000919
- Produktnummer: 21758792
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'088 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Richard Robinson is Lecturer in English at the University of Swansea, UK.
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