Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"

Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"

This paper examines the continuities of theme and meaning that unite McGahern’s early story “Christmas” and his much later story “The Creamery Manager”. Both reveal a strain of stoicicism that informs McGahern’s entire narrative practice. These and many of McGahern’s other stories record the social...

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Autor principal: Schrank, Bernice
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Publicado em: Journal of the Short Story in English 2010
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:jsse_1007 https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1007 2010-12-01T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/hb69 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager" Journal of the Short Story in English Presses universitaires de Rennes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6108 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0294-0442 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse Schrank, Bernice This paper examines the continuities of theme and meaning that unite McGahern’s early story “Christmas” and his much later story “The Creamery Manager”. Both reveal a strain of stoicicism that informs McGahern’s entire narrative practice. These and many of McGahern’s other stories record the social and metaphysical loneliness of the man in the crowd, and the desperation at the heart of what is called happiness. Typically, McGahern contextualizes and localizes this existential unease within a mid-twentieth century rural Irish society which is both socially conservative and religiously oppressive. The stories are controlled and compact; they avoid large dramatic gestures and catastrophes. In their place, McGahern offers temperate ironies, cool understatements, and low-keyed evidence of characters who have the ability to endure and survive, despite the fullness of their knowledge of life’s defects and deficiencies
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description This paper examines the continuities of theme and meaning that unite McGahern’s early story “Christmas” and his much later story “The Creamery Manager”. Both reveal a strain of stoicicism that informs McGahern’s entire narrative practice. These and many of McGahern’s other stories record the social and metaphysical loneliness of the man in the crowd, and the desperation at the heart of what is called happiness. Typically, McGahern contextualizes and localizes this existential unease within a mid-twentieth century rural Irish society which is both socially conservative and religiously oppressive. The stories are controlled and compact; they avoid large dramatic gestures and catastrophes. In their place, McGahern offers temperate ironies, cool understatements, and low-keyed evidence of characters who have the ability to endure and survive, despite the fullness of their knowledge of life’s defects and deficiencies
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title Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"
title_short Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"
title_full Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"
title_fullStr Legends of the fall: John McGahern's "Christmas" and "The creamery manager"
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