A Comparative Imagological Study of the Irish and Ukrainian Great Famines in Novels by
Samchuk, Macken, Motyl and Mullen compares and contrasts the formation of stereotypical …

Given the rapid rate of social and economic change in Ireland in the past few decades, it
would be logical to expect that the novel form should have undergone, and be undergoing …

The image of outsider in literature has always been functional for writers to delve into
individual psychology and to cogently divulge personal realities. Such a disclosure of the …

John McGahern wrote this statement about the life of the tyrannical father who raised him.
McGahern knows that when home is a dark place, memories of it follow one, consciously or …

Production, defined here as the application of one's energies to the production of a good or
service and Reflection, meaning the pursuit of a purely contemplative life, with the benefit of …

Critical analysis of the representation of shame in modern Irish fiction is noticeable only by
its relative absence from the field. Indeed, there is a marked scarcity of scholarship that even …

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This thesis, by providing a deconstructive reading of the work of John McGahern and Anne
Enright, elucidates the way in which the place, position and representation of women in …

In this thesis I argue that John McGahern's early novels treat the rampant social
despondency of mid-twentieth-century Ireland by revealing its roots in the social and political …

Abstract Encompassing the Intolerable examines John McGahern's depiction of individual
consciousness struggling with postcolonial Ireland's three dominant and interconnected …