Synopses & Reviews
The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Irelands leading—and most prolific—contemporary writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on MacLaverty. Covering all of his novels and many of his short stories, the book explores the ways in which the author has grappled with such themes as The Troubles, the Holocaust, Catholicism, and music. Bernard MacLaverty: Critical Readings also includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.
About the Author
Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. His previous publications include Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (2010) and Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (2007).
Table of Contents
Foreword, Glenn Patterson \ Introduction, Richard Rankin Russell \ 1. “‘Made-Up Truths: Themes,Tropes, and Narrative Technique in Bernard MacLavertys Early Short Stories,” Michael Parker \ 2. “Parabolic Plots in MacLavertys
Lamb,” Richard Rankin Russell \ 3. “‘Join us: Musical Style and Identity in ‘My Dear Palestrina,” Gerry Smyth \ 4. “‘That orange and green dilemma: Violence and the Traumatised Subject in Bernard MacLavertys Screenplays of
Cal (1983) and
Lamb (1985),” Richard Mills \ 5. “Character and Construction in Bernard MacLavertys Troubles Stories:
The Great Profundo and
Walking the Dog,” Richard Haslam, \ 6. “MacLavertys Holocaust: Affect, Memory, and the ‘Troubles,” Stephen Watt \ 7. “The Personal is Political: Bernard MacLavertys
Grace Notes as a Peace Process Novel,” Marilynn Richtarik \ 8. “‘Moving from one element to another: Body and Soul in Bernard MacLavertys
The Anatomy School,” Michael Rawl \ 9. “Bernard MacLavertys Fictional Geographies,” Neal Alexander \ 10. “Ireland and Elsewhere: The ‘Non-Irish in Bernard MacLavertys Fiction,” Laura Pelaschiar \ Afterword: “Looking at Art in Bernard MacLavertys Fiction,” David Holdeman \ Further Reading \ Index.