Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings

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).

• 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’s 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 MacLaverty’s Screenplays of Cal (1983) and Lamb (1985),” Richard Mills \ 5. “Character and Construction in Bernard MacLaverty’s Troubles Stories: The Great Profundo and Walking the Dog,” Richard Haslam, \ 6. “MacLaverty’s Holocaust: Affect, Memory, and the ‘Troubles,’” Stephen Watt \ 7. “The Personal is Political: Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes as a Peace Process Novel,” Marilynn Richtarik \ 8. “‘Moving from one element to another’: Body and Soul in Bernard MacLaverty’s The 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 Pelaschiar \ Afterword: “Looking at Art in Bernard MacLaverty’s Fiction,” David Holdeman \ Further Reading \ Index.