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Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings
About this book
The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland's leading-and most prolific-contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on MacLaverty. Covering all of his novels and many of his short stories, the book explores the ways in which the author has grappled with such themes as The Troubles, the Holocaust, Catholicism, and music. Bernard MacLaverty: Critical Readings also includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 “Made-Up Truth[s]”: Themes, Tropes, and Narrative Technique in Bernard MacLaverty’s Early Short Stories
- 2 Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty’s Lamb
- 3 “Join us”: Musical Style and Identity in “My Dear Palestrina”
- 4 “That Orange and Green Dilemma”: Violence and the Traumatized Subject in Bernard MacLaverty’s Screenplays of Cal (1983) and Lamb (1985)
- 5 Character and Construction in MacLaverty’s “Troubles” Stories: The Great Profundo and Walking the Dog
- 6 MacLaverty’s Holocaust: Affect, Memory, and the “Troubles”
- 7 The Personal is Political: Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes as a Peace Process Novel
- 8 “Moving from One Element to Another”: Body and Soul in Bernard MacLaverty’s The Anatomy School
- 9 Bernard MacLaverty’s Fictional Geographies
- 10 Ireland and Elsewhere: The “Non-Irish” in Bernard MacLaverty’s Fiction
- Afterword: Looking at Art in Bernard MacLaverty’s Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
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