John McGahern

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: the house of vision: from darkness to the rising sun
Part I Plato’s Cave: jumping at shadows in the family home
	1 The Medusa’s mirror, motherhood and a woman’s place in The Barracks
	2 Rejecting convention and ‘the Ireland that we dreamed of’ in The Dark
	3 Rising from the cave in Nightlines
Part II The heterotopia: new and uncertain beginnings
	4 The road away becomes the road back: brutal experiments in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer
	5 Standing outside life: emergence and transformation in Getting Through and High Ground
Part III The halfway house: emergent forms of home
	6 In the halfway house: custom, ritual and the social world of manners in Amongst Women
	7 A life of one’s own: displacement and transgression in the late stories
Part IV The Fifth Province: responsibilities in the deep hearth’s core
	8 Responsibilities in the hearth of the house of light: That They May Face the Rising Sun
	9 Reimagining darkness: continuity and contrast in The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings
Conclusion: the poetics of dreaming and time regained in Memoir
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