Rupert Thomson: Critical Essays - Couverture souple

Pohl, Rebecca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780240570 ISBN 13 : 9781780240572

Editeur : Gylphi, 2016

Synopsis

Rupert Thomson's innovative and unsettling writing ranges from dystopian alternative futures to meditations on crime and cultural memory, and from historical fictions to explorations of contemporary gender violence. The essays in this collection argue that Thomson's novels and memoir are compelling case-studies in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century literature, which engage with contemporary cultural and political preoccupations through persistently off-beat and often experimental literary forms, and trouble stable definitions of genre in the process. With chapters focusing on borders, panopticism, haunting, child sexual abuse, shame, atmosphere and intertextuality, this collection offers a critical introduction to an author whose work has been overlooked by the academy for too long.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rebecca Pohl is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Rebecca's research is situated at the intersection of contemporary literature and women's writing, with a particular focus on literary institutions and discourses of literary value. Her current project looks at experimental women's writing, especially the relationship between pleasure, accessibility and difficulty. Rebecca has published on Sarah Waters and Victorian visual culture. She translates theory and poetry.

Christopher Vardy is completing a PhD exploring figurations of Thatcherism and the End of History in twenty-first-century British fiction. He has previously published journal articles on contemporary American fiction and dystopian/abusive narratives about the recent past, as well as book chapters on the politics of nostalgia and childhood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gylphi
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780240570
• ISBN 13: 9781780240572
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Éditeur: Vardy Christopher
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