"Grave of the images of dead passions and their days": "The country funeral" as McGahern's poetic tombeau
This paper first examines the symbolic filiation between the character of Gabriel in “The Dead” and the figure of Philly Ryan in the short story. Both characters go through the sobering experience of shedding the idealised self-images which helped them to go through life so far. However, Philly actu...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2010
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |