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John McGahern: Ways of Looking

English

By (author): John Singleton

John McGahern (19342006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artists perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGaherns artistic and poetic vision his ways of looking, examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops, what effects such developments have on the works forms and how these forms evolve, at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGaherns literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years, research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a traditional literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGaherns work, with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house, the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGaherns literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic, vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social, cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 17 Nov 2023

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781032285412

About John Singleton

John Singleton was awarded his PhD in English from the National University of Ireland Galway in 2020. He has taught across various disciplines in the School of English and Creative Arts and the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway since 2016. His main research interests are Modern Literature and Drama in English Creative Writing Irish Studies and Spatiality. His research has been published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe NPPSH Reflections and The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique.

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