Bernard MacLaverty

by Richard Rankin Russell

This first English-language monograph on the Northern Irish-born writer Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. Richard Rankin Russell emphasizes MacLaverty's dialectic of imprisonment versus freedom, the latter of which is represented by love. Love in the earlier works is often perverted, whether in the name of family or Irish nationalism, but after the publication of the novel Cal (1983),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483018
• ISBN13: 9781611483017
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 175 Pages