Bernard MacLaverty New Critical Readings [Paperback]

The author of such works asLamb, Cal,andGrace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland's 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 Readingsalso includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.Richard Rankin Russellis Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. His previous publications includePoetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland(2010) andMartin McDonagh: A Casebook (2007).Foreword, Glenn Patterson \ Introduction, Richard Rankin Russell \ 1. 'Made-Up Truths': Themes,Tropes, and Narrative Technique in Bernard MacLaverty's Early Short Stories, Michael Parker \ 2. Parabolic Plots in MacLaverty'sLamb, 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 MacLaverty's Screenplays ofCal(1983) andLamb(1985), Richard Mills \ 5. Character and Construction in Bernard MacLaverty's Troubles Stories:The Great ProfundoandWalking the Dog, Richard Haslam, \ 6. MacLaverty's Holocaust: Affect, Memory, and the 'Troubles,' Stephen Watt \ 7. The Personal is Political: Bernard MacLaverty'sGrace Notesas a Peace Process Novel, Marilynn Richtarik \ 8. 'Moving from one element to another': Body and Soul in Bernard MacLaverty'sThe Anatomy School, Michael Rawl \ 9. Bernard MacLaverty's Fictional Geographies, Neal Alexander \ 10. Ireland and Elsewhere: The 'Non-Irish' in Bernard MacLaverty's Fiction, Laura Pelascl“%