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【ジョン・マクガハンとモダニズム】
John McGahern and Modernism '18
Robinson, Richard
著
発行年月 |
2018年06月 |
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出版国 |
イギリス |
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言語 |
英語 |
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媒体 |
冊子 |
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装丁 |
paper |
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ページ数/巻数 |
272 p. |
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ジャンル |
洋書/人文科学/文学/イギリス文学 |
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ISBN |
9781350075122 |
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商品コード |
1026419534 |
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国件名 |
アイルランド
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本の性格 |
学術書 |
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新刊案内掲載月 |
2018年04月 |
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商品URL
| https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1026419534 |
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内容
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.