John Mcgahern And The Art Of Memory
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John Mcgahern And The Art Of Memory
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Author : Dermot McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
John Mcgahern And The Art Of Memory written by Dermot McCarthy and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Ireland categories.
In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto either denied or mystified. Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of memory, confession, and imaginative recovery, this book is a close reading of McGahern's novels that discovers his narrative poiēsis in both the fiction and the memoir to be a single, continuous, and coherent mythopoeic project concealed within the career of a novelist writing ostensibly in the realist tradition of modern Irish fiction. McGahern's total body of work centres around the experiences of loss, memory, and imaginative recovery. To read his fiction as an art of memory is to recognize how he used story-telling to confront the extended grief and anger that blighted his early life and that shaped his sense of self and world. It is also to understand how he gradually, painfully and honestly wrote his way out of the darkness and despair of the early work into the luminous celebration of life and the world in his great last novel That They May Face the Rising Sun.
The Art Of Memory
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Author : John Willis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1621
The Art Of Memory written by John Willis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1621 with categories.
Farming In Modern Irish Literature
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Author : Nicholas Grene
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-05
Farming In Modern Irish Literature written by Nicholas Grene and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back. The first five chapters examine some of the key themes: the impact of inheritance on family in the patriarchal system where there could only be one male heir; the struggles for survival in the poorest regions of the West of Ireland; the uses of childhood farming memories whether idyllic or traumatic; and the representation of communities, challenging the homogeneous idealizing images of the Literary Revival; the impact of modernization on successive generations into the twenty-first century. The final three chapters are devoted to three major writers in whose work farming is central: Patrick Kavanagh, the small farmer who had to find an individual voice to express his own unique experience; John McGahern in whose fiction the life of the farm is always posited as alternative to a rootless urban milieu; and Seamus Heaney who re-imagined his farming childhood in so many different modes throughout his career. Farming in Modern Irish Literature yields original insights into the literary iconography of rural Ireland and its interplay with social and cultural history, opening up fresh vistas on the achievements of Irish writers in different genres, styles, and historical eras.
Laying Out The Bones
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Author : Bridget English
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Laying Out The Bones written by Bridget English and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides insight into Ireland’s cultural and historical experience of death. Combining key concepts from narrative theory—such as readers’ competing desires for a story and for closure—with Irish cultural analyses and literary criticism, English performs astute close readings of death in select novels by Joyce, Beckett, Kate O’Brien, John McGahern, and Anne Enright. With each chapter, she demonstrates how novelistic narrative serves as a way of mediating between the physical facts of death and its lasting impact on the living. English suggests that while Catholic conceptions of death have always been challenged by alternative secular value systems, these systems have also struggled to find meaningful alternatives to the consolation offered by religious conceptions of the afterlife.
The Art Of Memory
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Author : Frances A. Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Art Of Memory written by Frances A. Yates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
John Mcgahern
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Author : John Singleton
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-11-17
John Mcgahern written by John Singleton and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
John McGahern (1934–2006) 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 artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s 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 work’s 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 McGahern’s 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 McGahern’s 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 McGahern’s 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.
John Mcgahern And Modernism
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Author : Richard Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-15
John Mcgahern And Modernism written by Richard Robinson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Chekhov, amongst others. Drawing out the ways in which McGahern's fiction conceals and reveals its modernist traces, this study considers subjects such as 'low' modernism, the complexity of McGahern's time-writing and his dialectical construction of the relationship between cultural tradition and modernity in Ireland. McGahern's narratives of melancholic return are often read psycho-biographically, but they also involve a return to the remnants of literature, including that of the modernist canon. This book will be of interest not only to McGahern scholars but also to those who contemplate the compromised legacies of literary modernism in late-twentieth century and contemporary writing.
The Art Of Memory
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Author : Frances A. Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Art Of Memory written by Frances A. Yates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Memory categories.
The Art Of Memory A Treatise Useful For All The Second Edition Corrected And Inlarged
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Author : Marius D'ASSIGNY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1699
The Art Of Memory A Treatise Useful For All The Second Edition Corrected And Inlarged written by Marius D'ASSIGNY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1699 with categories.
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Author : Константин В. Никифоров
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
written by Константин В. Никифоров and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.