Overview
The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland’s leading—and most prolific—contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on MacLaverty. Covering all of his novels and many of his short stories, the book explores the ways in which the author has grappled with such themes as The Troubles, the Holocaust, Catholicism, and music. Bernard MacLaverty: Critical Readings also includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Richard Rankin Russell (Baylor University, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781441137869
ISBN 10: 1441137866
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 10 April 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Rankin Russell's 'Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty's Lamb' (pp. 27-44) repurposes and explores the parables of the Good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Previous criticism on Lamb has presented it as a critique of religion and Catholicism. Rankin Russell offers an alternative approach, suggesting that it is Lamb's misreading and neglect of illustrative parables that leads to his degeneration. As such, Rankin Russell suggests that Lamb, and MacLaverty's fiction more broadly, has an ethical imperative--demanding that readers take moral responsibility for their actions and development. - Hannah Sheed, Year's Work in English Studies Rankin Russell s Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty s Lamb (pp. 27 44) repurposes and explores the parables of the Good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Previous criticism on Lamb has presented it as a critique of religion and Catholicism. Rankin Russell offers an alternative approach, suggesting that it is Lamb s misreading and neglect of illustrative parables that leads to his degeneration. As such, Rankin Russell suggests that Lamb, and MacLaverty s fiction more broadly, has an ethical imperative demanding that readers take moral responsibility for their actions and development. - Hannah Sheed, Year's Work in English Studies
Rankin Russell s Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty s <i>Lamb</i> (pp. 27 44) repurposes and explores the parables of the Good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Previous criticism on <i>Lamb</i> has presented it as a critique of religion and Catholicism. Rankin Russell offers an alternative approach, suggesting that it is Lamb s misreading and neglect of illustrative parables that leads to his degeneration. As such, Rankin Russell suggests that <i>Lamb</i>, and MacLaverty s fiction more broadly, has an ethical imperative demanding that readers take moral responsibility for their actions and development. - Hannah Sheed, <i>Year's Work in English Studies</i>
Rankin Russell's 'Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty's Lamb' (pp. 27-44) repurposes and explores the parables of the Good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Previous criticism on Lamb has presented it as a critique of religion and Catholicism. Rankin Russell offers an alternative approach, suggesting that it is Lamb's misreading and neglect of illustrative parables that leads to his degeneration. As such, Rankin Russell suggests that Lamb, and MacLaverty's fiction more broadly, has an ethical imperative--demanding that readers take moral responsibility for their actions and development. - Hannah Sheed, Year's Work in English Studies
Rankin Russell s Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty s Lamb (pp. 27 44) repurposes and explores the parables of the Good Samaritan and the lost sheep. Previous criticism on Lamb has presented it as a critique of religion and Catholicism. Rankin Russell offers an alternative approach, suggesting that it is Lamb s misreading and neglect of illustrative parables that leads to his degeneration. As such, Rankin Russell suggests that Lamb, and MacLaverty s fiction more broadly, has an ethical imperative demanding that readers take moral responsibility for their actions and development. - Hannah Sheed, Year's Work in English Studies
Author Information
Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. His previous publications include Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (2010) and Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (2007).
