Plato’s Cave and the Image of the Family Home in John McGahern’s The Barracks
This article argues that, in The Barracks, John McGahern’s literary production of the domestic familial space charts the fractures and partitions within that supposed unified space to reveal the anaemic passivity and alienating nausea that overcomes individuals within a prescriptive and totalising h...
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| Language: | English |
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European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Review of Irish Studies in Europe |
| Online Access: | http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/2221/1726 |