John Mcgahern and the Imagination of Tradition
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781782051640
Subjects: Irish literature, history and criticism
Description: This book argues how John McGahern was not only an acute social commentator but also an intelligent and perceptive reader interested in the nature and function of literature. It presents McGahern as a highly literary writer aware of the various literary traditions he had inherited, and shows how his imagination was shaped by his lifelong immersion in Irish, English and European literature. Stanley van der Ziel examines how McGahern's reading of classic books and authors determined the concerns of his novels and stories by placing some key elements of McGahern's aesthetic in their appropriate literary contexts.--