An edition of History, myth, and ritual in the fiction of John McGahern
(2002)
History, myth, and ritual in the fiction of John McGahern
strategies of transcendence
by James Whyte
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History, myth, and ritual in the fiction of John McGahern: strategies of transcendence
2002, Edwin Mellen Press
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0773470182 9780773470187
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Social Context: Between Two Worlds 21
(i) The Socio-Historical Background 21
(ii) The Making of a Myth: McGahem's (Re)vision of History 26
(iii) 'Between Two Worlds': The Barracks and The Dark 32
(iv) A Changing World 45
(v) The World of Manners 51
Chapter 2 The Struggle for Form: McGahem's Aesthetic 59
(i) The Problem with the Novel Form 60
(ii) The Writer in a Changing Society 62
(iii) McGahern and his Audience: 'Cut off from the Public World'? 67
(iv) O'Crohan and the Search for an Epic Style 75
(v) A Fallen World 80
(vi) Language, Epic and Novel: Bakhtin in an Irish Context 87
Chapter 3 Religion and Ritual: Instinct and the Formal Pattern 95
(i) The Representation of the Church 97
(ii) Rituals and Images 102
(iii) Religion without the Church 111
(iv) Religion and Art 126
Chapter 4 The Family and Symbolic Stories 135
(i) The Family in a Changing World 136
(ii) Plot without Action? 138
(iii) The Family Drama 141
(iv) The Father 143
(v) 'Coming into his Kingdom': Moments of Transition 145
(vi) Fathers and Sons 151
(vii) Preparing to Murder 157
(viii) The Ritual of Return 161
Chapter 5 Centre and Periphery: Sexual Politics and the Ideology of Place 167
(i) The Stepmother Stereotype 167
(ii) Possessing Space 171
(iii) 'At the Centre of Life' 176
(iv) The Terrible Mother 182
(v) The Barracks: 'the fabricated structure of safe passions' 185
(vi) 'A Slip-up': 'in the shelter of her shadow' 193
(vii) 'The Beginning of an Idea': Art and Motherhood 196
(viii) 'Family Talk': Language and Nature in Amongst Women 202
Conclusion 217
Appendix: An Interview with John McGahem 227.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-265) and index.
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