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| Titre : | The Pornographer and McGahern's Allusive Practice (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Tom WALKER, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 47 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 281-297 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Allusions to other texts abound in John McGahern's fiction. His works repeatedly, though diffidently, refer to literary tradition. Yet the nature of such allusiveness is still unclear. This article focuses on how allusion in The Pornographer (1979) is depicted as an intellectual and social practice, embodying particular attitudes towards the function of texts and the knowledge they represent. Moreover, the critique of the practice of allusion that the novel undertakes is shown to have broader significance in terms of McGahern's whole oeuvre and its evolving attempts to salvage something of present value from the literature of the past. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
