Irish Writers and Their Creative Process

by Genet, Jacqueline; Hellegouarc'H, Wynne

• ISBN13: 9780861403844
• ISBN10: 0861403843
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd

Summary

This volume contains lectures delivered at Caen University in 1992 for an international symposium organized by the Research Group in Anglo-Irish Studies. The writers speaking include poets -- Seamus Heaney, John Montague -- playwrights -- Thomas Kilroy, Tom Murphy -- and novelists -- John McGahern, John Banville. Their opinions are counter-pointed by leading critics who address each writer's work.

Table of Contents

Jacqueline Genet	vii
Introduction	vii
I. The Irish Poets and the Creative Process	3	(52)
Seamus Heaney
A. `The Frontier of Writing'	3	(27)
Maurice Harmon
`Seamus Heaney and the Gentle Flame'	17	(13)
John Montague
B. `The Sweet Way'	30	(25)
Augustine Martin
`John Montague: Passionate Contemplative'	37	(18)
II. The Irish Playwrights and the Creative Process	55	(48)
Thomas Kilroy
A. `From Page to Stage'	55	(23)
Christopher Murrary
`Thomas Kilroy's World Elsewhere'	63	(15)
Tom Murphy
B. `The Creative Process'	78	(25)
Lynda Henderson
`Men, Women, and the Life of the Spirit in Tom Murphy's Plays'	87	(16)
III. The Irish Novelists and the Creative Process	103	(36)
John McGhern
A. `Reading and Writing'	103	(15)
`John McGahern
`John McGahern: A New Image?'	110	(8)
John Banville
B. `The Personae of Summer'	118	(21)
Rudiger Imhof
`In Search of the Rosy Grail: The Creative Process in the Novels of John Banville'	123	(16)
Notes	139	(8)
Index	147