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John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition
John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition presents McGahern as a novelist of ideas by showing how his fiction engages in a knowing and self-conscious way with ideas about literature from different historical periods. It is a study of McGahern's fiction seen through the literary influences that shaped his imagination, which argues that McGahern's imagination absorbed things that interested him in the writers he had read and thought about, often for many decades, in order to make an art that was at once wholly individual and deeply traditional. In thematically arranged chapters on McGahern's debt to authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, the nineteenth-century Realists, Proust, Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and others, it demonstrates how well-known tropes and ideas from those authors are repeatedly reworked or re-imagined, often in ironic ways, in his fiction.

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John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition
John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition presents McGahern as a novelist of ideas by showing how his fiction engages in a knowing and self-conscious way with ideas about literature from different historical periods. It is a study of McGahern's fiction seen through the literary influences that shaped his imagination, which argues that McGahern's imagination absorbed things that interested him in the writers he had read and thought about, often for many decades, in order to make an art that was at once wholly individual and deeply traditional. In thematically arranged chapters on McGahern's debt to authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, the nineteenth-century Realists, Proust, Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and others, it demonstrates how well-known tropes and ideas from those authors are repeatedly reworked or re-imagined, often in ironic ways, in his fiction.

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John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition

John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition

by Stanley van der Ziel
John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition

John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition

by Stanley van der Ziel

Overview

John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition presents McGahern as a novelist of ideas by showing how his fiction engages in a knowing and self-conscious way with ideas about literature from different historical periods. It is a study of McGahern's fiction seen through the literary influences that shaped his imagination, which argues that McGahern's imagination absorbed things that interested him in the writers he had read and thought about, often for many decades, in order to make an art that was at once wholly individual and deeply traditional. In thematically arranged chapters on McGahern's debt to authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, the nineteenth-century Realists, Proust, Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and others, it demonstrates how well-known tropes and ideas from those authors are repeatedly reworked or re-imagined, often in ironic ways, in his fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782051640
Publisher: Cork University Press
Publication date: 02/29/2016
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Stanley van der Ziel is the Blair Chair Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He has previously taught English and Irish Literature at University College Dublin, the University of Limerick and St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1 Shakespearean Antics 24

2 An Augustan Sensibility 53

3 A Romantic Imagination 82

4 The Limits of Realism 116

5 A Modernist Mind I: Proustian Thought and Forms 151

6 A Modernist Mind II: After Yeats and Joyce 181

7 Post-war Philosophies 219

Epilogue 241

Notes and References 245

Selected Bibliography 279

Index 289

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