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Name: John McGahern
Birth Date: 1934
Nationality: British, Irish
Gender: Male

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Biography of John McGahern
6,166 words, approx. 21 pages
John McGahern's significance to contemporary Irish literature was stated by Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson. When asked whether McGahern was his father, Patterson replied: "Yes. He is the father of the modern Irish novel." The status of McGahern as...
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Biography of John McGahern
5,006 words, approx. 17 pages
John McGahern's fiction continually tempts critics to compare him with other novelists. An Irishman, he has undergone the inevitable comparison with Joyce, which few Irish novelists escape. One critic claims, however, that he writes in the tradition of...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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John McGahern Information
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John McGahern (November 12 1934 – March 30 2006) was an Irish writer (in...


News and Journals
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Europe
An artist of place. (Dublin).(John McGahern)
05/01/2002: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
Almost forty years on since his debut novel appeared, John McGahern has once again taken the Irish literary scene by storm, delivering a masterpiece with his latest novel By the Lake (published in Ireland as That They May Face The Rising Sun), his...
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Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
John McGahern--an annotated bibliography.(Bibliography)
03/22/2005: 10,805 words, approx. 36 pages
1. Works By McGahern Since McGahern is so popular in France, as is evident from the large body of criticism on his work produced by French academics, written in English as well as in French (see 4 below), and, more importantly, since...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lori Rogers
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In the following essay, Rogers discusses the role of domesticity in McGahern's prose.
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Critical Essay by Eileen Kennedy
5,578 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Kennedy discusses the recurring themes in The Barracks, The Pornographer, The Leavetaking, and The Dark.
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Critical Essay by Antoinette Quinn
4,997 words, approx. 17 pages
Nightlines, the title of John McGahern's first collection of stories, (1970), promises a series of sombre narratives; Getting Through, the title of his second, (1978), connects communication with strategies of survival; High Ground, (1986), his most recent collection, hints at elevations of theme or perspective, but a perusal of the title-story reveals the ironies of eminence. John McGahern's short fictions are studies in disillusionment and its apathetic after-math, in alienated authenticity...
 


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