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John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition
Stanley Van Der Ziel
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Description for John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition
Hardcover. John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a 'chronicler' of the lives of farmers, teachers and policemen in the Irish midlands in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a 'chronicler' of the lives of farmers, teachers and policemen in the Irish midlands in the twentieth century. The social and historical veracity which so many readers admire in his novels and stories accounts for his popular success in his native country. It has also been the subject of a significant body of criticism of his work. This new book on McGahern's fiction argues how he was not only an acute ... Read more
John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a 'chronicler' of the lives of farmers, teachers and policemen in the Irish midlands in the twentieth century. The social and historical veracity which so many readers admire in his novels and stories accounts for his popular success in his native country. It has also been the subject of a significant body of criticism of his work. This new book on McGahern's fiction argues how he was not only an acute ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782051640
SKU
V9781782051640
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About Stanley Van Der Ziel
Stanley van der Ziel is a Lecturer in English, St Patrick's College, Dublin
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