John Mc Gahern's The Pornographer or the representation of Nothingness: An attempt to overcome Irish parochialism

Giuliana Bendelli

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Abstract

The essay focuses on the "modern" consciousness of the main character of McGahern's novel “The Pornographer”. The intimate ambiguity of this consciousness is dramatized through the role of the pornographer, that is to say the author of bad writing, but also this definition has an ambiguous meaning in so far as pornography seems to be the only real, even if paradoxical opposition to death thanks to its technique of nothingness. In fact, in its technical description, it offers the way of systematizing the values of vacuity.
Lingua originaleEnglish
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteThe Classical World and the Mediterranean.
Pagine188-193
Numero di pagine6
Volume1996
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1996
EventoThe Classical World and the Mediterranean: insulae, islands, Ireland - Sassari, Alghero (Sardegna)
Durata: 7 set 1994 → 10 set 1994

Convegno

ConvegnoThe Classical World and the Mediterranean: insulae, islands, Ireland
CittàSassari, Alghero (Sardegna)
Periodo7/9/94 → 10/9/94

Keywords

  • Ireland
  • local
  • parochialism
  • vacuity

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