"Along the edges": along the edges of meaning

This paper is an invitation to read John McGahern’s short story “Along the Eges” as a mimetic exploration of a hazardous ridge between separateness and togetherness. The narrator settles along the edge of perspective, denying the reader the stability of interpretation. The experience is that of radi...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse,
Prif Awdur: Majola-Leblond, Claire
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Cyhoeddwyd: Journal of the Short Story in English 2010
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:This paper is an invitation to read John McGahern’s short story “Along the Eges” as a mimetic exploration of a hazardous ridge between separateness and togetherness. The narrator settles along the edge of perspective, denying the reader the stability of interpretation. The experience is that of radical Otherness, dark and dazzling