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Date Added: 2012-05-21 13:19:35
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CALL FOR PAPERS
A Way of Seeing: 50 Years of John McGahern in Print
Queen’s University, Belfast
15-16 March 2013
Plenary speakers:
Professor Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Dr Eamonn Hughes (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Dr Eamon Maher (Institute of Technology, Tallaght)
Professor Denis Sampson
2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks, for which he was awarded the Æ Memorial Medal and Macaulay Fellowship. It announced the emergence of a unique literary vision, his ‘way of seeing’ the world. With the publication and
subsequent censorship of The Dark two years later, McGahern became a cause célèbre. Like so many Irish writers, he embarked on a period of self-imposed exile; however, he returned to his native soil in the 1970s as a writer and farmer.
As he is now established in the pantheon of great Irish writers, a burgeoning field of Irish Studies is emerging, and this conference welcomes papers on any aspect of McGahern’s life,
works and legacy. We invite submissions for 20 minute papers on themes which may include, but are not limited to, the following:
‘Remembrances of things past and dreams of things to come’: Memory and Autobiography
‘The caretaker of the possible’: Intertextual, Stylistic and Aesthetic Elements
‘What the hell is all this living and dying about anyway?’ McGahern and Philosophy
Green prisons and tunnels: McGahern and Ecocriticism
Sensible pagan lives? McGahern and Theology
L’obscur: McGahern in Translation / Global McGahern
The power of darkness: McGahern on Stage and Screen
‘But now the university’: The John McGahern Archive and Genetic Criticism
‘Hel-lo … Hel-lo … Hel-lo …’: McGahern the Historiographer / Historicising McGahern
‘To see and celebrate even the totally intolerable’: Domestic and Political Violence
Amongst women: Feminist Readings of McGahern
‘Ireland wanking is Ireland free’: Masculinity and Sexuality
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words by Friday 7 December 2012 to Raymond Mullen and Adam Bargroff at johnmcgahern2013@qub.ac.uk or the School of English, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN. Contact: Raymond Mullen
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