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Overview"Understanding John McGahern surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of """"The Barracks"""". Most widely known for the 1998 film adaptation of """"Amongst Women"""", McGahern (1934-2006) has been enthusiastically received internationally and particularly in France, where some of the best and most extensive scholarship on his work has taken place. In this introduction to the writer and his body of work, David Malcolm identifies McGahern's primary concerns and assesses his popularity beyond the shores of Ireland. Although McGahern has long been categorized as a writer who specializes in the despair afflicting the Irish, Malcolm takes a broader view, showing how the novelist writes about individual fates that resonate with universal existential concerns. Malcolm discusses the autobiographical compass points of McGahern's work - rural northwest Ireland, a religious mother who dies prematurely, a domineering patriarch, a repressive and religious social order, 1950s and 1960s Dublin - and demonstrates that even singularly Irish situations relate to a larger twentieth-century reality. In individual chapters, Malcolm offers close readings of McGahern's novels and short stories, from """"The Barracks"""" to """"That They May Face the Rising Sun""""/""""By the Lake"""". Malcolm's analyses include McGahern's controversial second novel, """"The Dark"""", which was banned by the Irish government. Malcolm shows the movement of McGahern's fiction from rural to urban and then back to rural settings, his novels' intertwining of individual and national histories, his insufficiently acknowledged technical experimentation, his depiction of existential despair and sexual malaise, and his hope for the future." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Malcolm , James HardinPublisher: University of South Carolina Press Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9781570036736ISBN 10: 157003673 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 28 February 2007 Audience: Adult education , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Malcolm is a professor of English literature and chair of the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Gdansk. His books include Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction; That Impossible Thing: The British Novel, 1978-1992; Understanding Ian McEwan; and Understanding Graham Swift. Malcolm lives in Sopot, Poland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |