John McGahern

Contents: Antonella Trombatore: Communicating with Nature: An Ecosemiotic Reading of Elizabeth's Umwelt in The Barracks - Maggie Pernot-Deschamps: Habits and Rituals in The Barracks - Bridget English: 'All real seeing grew into smiling [...] all else was death, a refusal, a turning back': Narrative, Death and Subjectivity in The Barracks - Paula McDonald: The Literary and Empirical Origins of McGahern's Ecological Consciousness - Brendan Thomas Mitchell: Emergence of the Self: McGahern and Joyce - Fergal Casey: Camus's Philosophy of Revolt in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer - Christine O'Dowd-Smyth: The Caretakers of the Condition of 'nothing new being possible': Post-Colonial Landscapes of Peripherality in McGahern's Amongst Women and Abdelhak Serhane's Le Soleil des obscurs - Nicholas Collins: '[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net': King Lear and McGahern's Family in Amongst Women - Jennifer Mullen: The Law of the Father: Tyrannical Fathers and Rebellious Sons in McGahern's Amongst Women and Driss Chraibi's Le Passe simple - Graham Price: The Fact is a Fiction: Representations of Memory, Place and Modernity in Friel and McGahern's Short Stories - Malachi O'Doherty: Gossip and Reality: Wondering Who to Believe in McGahern's Stories - Niamh Campbell: This is Mine: Phatic Communion and Textual Space in That They May Face the Rising Sun and Memoir - Michelle Kennedy: Isolated Fathers: The Powerlessness of Powerful Patriarchs in McGahern's Works.