In the (public) house of the Lord: pub ritual and Sacramental Presence in Last Orders.

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

This essay argues that Last Orders can be read as a religious novel "gone underground," that it demonstrates ways in which conventional religious feeling has been recontextualized and reconstituted in a largely secular contemporary context. While no one in Swift's novel has a clear sense of religious faith, Swift's pub rituals perform sacramental functions for his male characters.

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According to many readers and critics, Graham Swift's Last Orders is a kind of meditation on loss played out through a specific type of pilgrimage. When Jack Dodds dies, his friends ...

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