Michel Faber: Critical Essays: 9 (Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays)

Langworthy, Rebecca

ISBN 10: 1780240961 / ISBN 13: 9781780240961

Edité par Gylphi, 2020

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR014806026

Synopsis :

This collection of essays provides the first substantial academic study of Faber's body of work from an international range of scholars many of whom include Faber's work in both their research and teaching.

Reviews
This collected volume offers a fittingly sensitive, creative and diverse range of responses to the complexities of Michel Faber's writings. The essays that make up the collection cover many aspects of Faber's work, including the limits of genre, human/animal relations, gender, language, time and the representation of reality itself. Correspondingly, the volume provides numerous frames and contexts through which to read Michel Faber, offering a substantial insight into the work of this important contemporary writer. --Ben Davies, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth

This is a welcome new volume in the Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays series. Its coverage of Faber's eclectic and powerful oeuvre is wide-ranging and strong, with the essays deploying a refreshing variety of methodological approaches to his work, and foregrounding a range of voices. It will be an important and useful foundational critical text on the work of this deeply thoughtful and highly skilled contemporary writer. --Sarah Dillon, Lecturer in Literature and Film, University of Cambridge

À propos de l'auteur:

Timothy C. Baker is Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author, most recently, of Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2019) and Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (Palgrave, 2014).

Ian Blyth is a lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at Inverness College, University of the Highlands and Islands | Colaiste Inbhir Nis, Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean. His research interests include the works of Tolkien, environmental philosophy, mediaeval eco-literature, and science fiction and fantasy in the anthropocene.

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz works as assistant professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Lodz, Poland, teaching courses and seminars in British literature and literary translation. His main fields of research include contemporary British and postcolonial literature, as well as poststructuralist and psychoanalytical literary theory.

Matt Foley is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Manchester Met. He is the author of Haunting Modernisms (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor, with Dr Rebecca Duncan, of Patrick McGrath and his Worlds (Routledge, 2019). His main research interests are in modernism, the gothic, and literary acoustics.

Rodge Glass is the author of the novels No Fireworks (Faber, 2005), Hope for Newborns (Faber, 2008) and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs (Serpent's Tail, 2012) as well as a graphic novel, Dougie's War (Freight, 2010, written with Dave Turbitt), LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation (Freight, 2013) and Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008).

Oliver B. Langworthy is associate lecturer in Patristics at the University of St Andrews and an academic editor with the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. His research interests include Patrististic theology and Biblical reception, later Patristic reception, Pneumatology, and deification.

Rebecca Langworthy's doctorate was awarded in 2019, and her thesis examined the development of adult fantasy as a sub-genre in the work of Scottish author George MacDonald. Her current research interests include Scottish Victorian literature, the Gothic, religion and literature, and fantasy literature.

Kristin Lindfield-Ott is an independent scholar based in the Scottish Highlands. She has published extensively on the works of James Macpherson (1736-1796) and on contemporary Scottish fiction.

Jim MacPherson is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands. He specialises in the history and literature of the Scottish Highlands and the region's connections with empire and is currently writing a book (co-authored with Kristin Lindfield-Ott) about James Macpherson (1736-1796) and his history writing, entitled Macpherson the Historian (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2021).

Natalie O'Keeffe is a graduate of the University of the Highlands and Islands, holding an MLitt in Highlands and Islands literature. Despite her eclectic interests, she is particularly intrigued by cultural history, transformative storytelling, and the portrayal of gender and sexuality in fiction.

Nick Prescott wrote his PhD on authors Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and has long been fascinated by contemporary and postmodern literature.

Kate Wilkinson teaches at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on contemporary fiction, and her particular interests include letters in twenty-first-century novels, temporality, technology and communication.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Michel Faber: Critical Essays: 9 (...
Éditeur : Gylphi
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good