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Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
This book examines two prominent Irish authors, Neil Jordan and John McGahern. Jordan is famous for his films, most notably The Crying Game, and this work studies both his films and his fiction. McGahern is the most respected, lauded Irish novelist since Joyce; a writer who broke the mold of Anglo-Irish writing after it settled into a conservative rut in the 1950s. The works of Jordan and McGahern, involved with seemingly minor issues of householding and parenting within the patriarchal family, reveal male and female characters to be representations of a masculine past and feminine present competing ... Read more
This book examines two prominent Irish authors, Neil Jordan and John McGahern. Jordan is famous for his films, most notably The Crying Game, and this work studies both his films and his fiction. McGahern is the most respected, lauded Irish novelist since Joyce; a writer who broke the mold of Anglo-Irish writing after it settled into a conservative rut in the 1950s. The works of Jordan and McGahern, involved with seemingly minor issues of householding and parenting within the patriarchal family, reveal male and female characters to be representations of a masculine past and feminine present competing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761809517
SKU
V9780761809517
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99-1
About Lori Rogers
Lori Rogers is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
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