Dialogue and women's lives in John McGahern's "amongst women" and Claire Keegan's "The forester's daughter"

  1. Terrazas Gallego, Melania 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Zeitschrift:
ES: Revista de filología inglesa

ISSN: 0210-9689

Datum der Publikation: 2012

Nummer: 33

Seiten: 321-339

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

According to Ingman (2009:253), throughout the history of the Irish short story the dialogue between male and female writers has been constant. Stories by women do not necessarily reveal a different approach to the form, but a strong determination to put women’s lives at the centre of their work. The purpose of this paper is to study whether there is dialogue between John McGahern’s novel Amongst Women (1990) and Claire Keegan’s short story “The Forester’s Daughter” (2007) and, if so, to explore how Keegan takes up the ironic challenge explicit in McGahem’s work concerning issues such as marriage, family relations, religion and women’s lives and makes it her own.

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