Reading Graham Swift
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2019
190 pages
978-1-4985-6952-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays on Graham Swift's fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift's oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift's fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift's work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-6952-1 (9781498569521)
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Tomasz Dobrogoszcz | Marta Goszczynska
Reading Graham Swift
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Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.
Marta Goszczynska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.
Marta Goszczynska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.
Content
Introduction
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczynska
Part 1: Beginnings and Continuities
Chapter 1: Trauma and Confliction in The Sweet-Shop Owner and Waterland
Philip Tew
Chapter 2: Reticent Detecting: The Evolution of Swift's (Un)Confessing Narrators
Anastasia Logotheti
Chapter 3: Masculinity as Failure: Male Characters in Learning to Swim and England and Other Stories
Katarzyna Ostalska
Part 2: Progressions and Evolutions
Chapter 4: Nostalgia, Sentiments, and Men in Out of This World
Katarzyna Wieckowska
Chapter 5: The Father Delusion in Ever After
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
Chapter 6: Filming the Unfilmable: Last Orders on Screen
Adam Sumera
Chapter 7: Re-Joycing Tomorrow: Graham Swift, Artificial Insemination, and the Question of Literary Paternity
Donald Kaczvinsky
Part 3: Recent Developments
Chapter 8: Forget 'Green English Fields': War(s) in Wish You Were Here
Catherine Pesso-Miquel
Chapter 9: Spectres of Silence in Wish You Were Here
Slawomir Konkol
Chapter 10: The England in Englandand Other Stories
David Malcolm
Chapter 11: Lost for Words: Narration, Language and Communication in England and Other Stories
Marta Goszczynska
Chapter 12: 'So How Did You Become a Writer?': Metafictional Concerns in Mothering Sunday
Bozena Kucala
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczynska
Part 1: Beginnings and Continuities
Chapter 1: Trauma and Confliction in The Sweet-Shop Owner and Waterland
Philip Tew
Chapter 2: Reticent Detecting: The Evolution of Swift's (Un)Confessing Narrators
Anastasia Logotheti
Chapter 3: Masculinity as Failure: Male Characters in Learning to Swim and England and Other Stories
Katarzyna Ostalska
Part 2: Progressions and Evolutions
Chapter 4: Nostalgia, Sentiments, and Men in Out of This World
Katarzyna Wieckowska
Chapter 5: The Father Delusion in Ever After
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
Chapter 6: Filming the Unfilmable: Last Orders on Screen
Adam Sumera
Chapter 7: Re-Joycing Tomorrow: Graham Swift, Artificial Insemination, and the Question of Literary Paternity
Donald Kaczvinsky
Part 3: Recent Developments
Chapter 8: Forget 'Green English Fields': War(s) in Wish You Were Here
Catherine Pesso-Miquel
Chapter 9: Spectres of Silence in Wish You Were Here
Slawomir Konkol
Chapter 10: The England in Englandand Other Stories
David Malcolm
Chapter 11: Lost for Words: Narration, Language and Communication in England and Other Stories
Marta Goszczynska
Chapter 12: 'So How Did You Become a Writer?': Metafictional Concerns in Mothering Sunday
Bozena Kucala
