The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature
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| TableOfContents | James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Howard Barker (and « the Art of Theatre ») -- Biographical Landmarks -- The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe -- The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy -- The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy -- References -- Chapter 18 Marina Lewycka -- References -- Chapter 19 Dermot Healy -- References -- Chapter 20 David Edgar -- References -- Chapter 21 Ian McEwan -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Tom Paulin -- Paulin's Literary and Critical Work -- Paulin's Attitude Towards Politics -- Understanding Northern Ireland through Other Cultures -- Paulin's Interest in Russia -- Paulin's Translation and Transformation of Poetry -- References -- Chapter 23 Graham Swift -- References -- Chapter 24 Martin Amis -- Introduction -- The Making of a Writer: The Biographical Background -- Writing against the Father: The Early Fiction -- London Fields: Postmodernism and the End of Jane Austen -- Lionel Asbo: Atavism and the Yob Within -- The Progress of Time -- The Zone of Interest -- Flaws and Foibles: Summarizing Amis's Talents -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 25 Peter Ackroyd -- References1 -- Note -- Chapter 26 Patrick McGrath -- References -- Chapter 27 Medbh McGuckian: 'All We Have To Go On Is the Words' -- Background -- Critical Reception, Major Themes -- Reading the Work -- Works Cited -- Chapter 28 Paul Muldoon -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Chapter 29 William Boyd: 'Fiction … So Real You Forget It is Fiction' -- Life and Work -- Critical Reception -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 30 'Some of These Things are True, and Some of Them Lies. But They are All Good Stories': The Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel -- References -- Chapter 31 Linton Kwesi Johnson -- References -- Chapter 32 Hanif Kureishi Cover -- Volume I -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors Notes of Vol. I -- Preface -- Part One -- Chapter 1 Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry -- Chapter 2 British Literature Today: Twenty-First Century British Literature -- References -- Chapter 3 Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing -- References -- Chapter 4 Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama -- Part Two -- Chapter 5 Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies -- Introduction: Higgins' counter-realist experimentalism -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Brian Friel -- Friel's Early Life and Artistic Growth -- Apprentice Works and Inspirations -- The Birth of Modern Irish Drama -- The 'Troubles', Field Day, and Friel's Wild(e) Side -- Internationalizing Irish Drama -- The Later Years -- References -- Chapter 7 Alan Bennett -- References -- Chapter 8 Edward Bond -- The Future -- Bibliography -- Note -- Chapter 9 Seamus Heaney -- References -- Chapter 10 Michael Moorcock -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Angela Carter -- References -- Chapter 12 Christina Reid -- Plays -- Themes and Technique -- Conclusion -- References -- Note -- Chapter 13 Bernard MacLaverty -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 13a Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community -- Introduction -- The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death -- A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 I Am, Therefore I Think: Being and Thinking Inside the World of John Banville's Fiction -- Introduction -- Long Lankin: 'Where's the Little Heir of This House?' -- The Artistic Process: When We Dead Awaken … We Find That We Have Never Lived -- The Infinities and The Plight of Being Non-human -- Chapter 15 Julian Barnes -- References -- Chapter 16 Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman's Fiction -- Language -- Place -- Conclusion Scottish Literature and the Political Reproduction of the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Contextualism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 57 Welsh Writing in English -- References -- Chapter 58 Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers‚ and Spies: Englishness and identity in the Contemporary British novel -- Decentring Englishness: The Rise of the Ex‐Centric -- Performing Englishness: Gentlemen and Spies -- Locating Englishness: Identity in Absentia -- Conclusion: Englishness as a Symptom of Nostalgia, or the Confusion between Absence and Loss -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 59 LGBT Fiction -- Introduction: 1990 -- Literature, Community, History -- Language and Identity -- Pretended Family Relationships: Standing on Ceremony -- Pretended Family Relationships: Christmases and Classrooms -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 60 British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology-Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative 'Singularity' -- Introduction: Cool Britannia -- New Millennium and Technology Fiction -- Conclusion: Who We Want to Become -- Works cited -- Chapter 61 British Influences on the Graphic Novel: A Discussion of the 'Invasion' Model of Interpretation -- 'The British Are Coming': The Myth of a 'Second British Invasion' -- A Critical Commentary on the 'Invasion' Interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 62 The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice's Great-Great-Granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy Worlds -- Victorian Heritage -- Twentieth-Century Antecedents -- Contemporary British Children's Fantasy -- Recent British Fantasy -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 63 Contemporary British Gothic: The C21st Ghost Story -- Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts (2009) -- Catriona Ward: Rawblood (2015) -- Peter James: The House on Cold Hill (2015) -- David Mitchell: Slade House (2015) -- Conclusion -- References Chapter 64 Post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Postcolonial and Multicultural Issues to Postethnic Bricolage -- Background and Beginnings -- My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia -- The Black Album and 'My Son the Fanatic' -- Short Stories and Postethnicity -- Recent Fiction and Essays -- References -- Chapter 33 Colm Tóibín -- Introduction -- Cultural and Political Background -- Essential Silence -- The Testament of Mary (2011/2) -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 34 Janice Galloway -- References and Select Bibliography -- Chapter 35 Martin Crimp -- Fringe Playwright: The Orange Tree Plays -- New-Writing Playwright: Royal Court Plays -- Innovative Modernist: Attempts and After -- Theatre Translator: Other Plays -- Late Work: Returns and Reformulations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 36 Adam Thorpe -- References -- Chapter 37 Benjamin Zephaniah: Popular Poetics against Populism -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 38 Jeanette Winterson -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 39 Jonathan Coe -- References -- Chapter 40 From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will Self -- Introduction: The Consistency of Voice and Tone -- 'Mother's Suburban Necro-Utopia': The Quantity Theory of Insanity (Short Stories) -- 'Nyum, Nyum, Nyum': Cock and Bull (A Novel) -- 'Disseminators of Drek': The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (Novella) -- 'The Greasy, Greasy Kebabs of Home': The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Non-Fictional Prose) -- 'I don't think Jesus would have moved the soup kitchen': Will Self's Great British Bus Journey (Audio Travelogue) -- Notes -- Volume II -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors Notes of Vol. II -- Preface -- Part Two -- Chapter 41 Jackie Kay -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Chapter 42 Kathleen Jamie -- A Strong Scots Accent of Mind -- Change Is Our Resting State Persona Political, But Not in the Grand Sense -- A Wildness Which is Smaller, Darker, More Complex and Interesting -- References -- Chapter 43 Ali Smith -- References -- Chapter 44 A.L. Kennedy -- References -- Chapter 45 Monica Ali -- References -- Chapter 46 Sarah Waters -- Bibliography -- Chapter 47 David Greig -- Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Europe, The Cosmonaut's Last Message, San Diego -- Protean Nation: Victoria, Outlying Islands, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart -- Rough Theatre: The American Pilot, Dunsinane, The Events -- A Dissensual Theatre -- References -- Chapter 48 David Mitchell -- Notes -- Chapter 49 Emma Donoghue -- Introduction -- Dramatist -- Historical Novelist -- Contemporary Novelist and Fabulist -- Recent Fiction: Room -- Frog Music -- The Wonder -- The Lotterys Plus One -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 50 Hari Kunzru -- References -- Chapter 51 Mark O'Rowe -- O'Rowe's Background and Its Impact on His Work -- An Overview of O'Rowe's Career -- The Future -- References -- Chapter 52 Conor McPherson -- Introduction -- Dublin, Masculinities, Monologues‚ and Films -- Speculative Spectralities -- Haunted Tigers/Un-Bidden Dragons -- Gender in McPherson's Drama -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 53 China Miéville -- References -- Note -- Chapter 54 Zadie Smith -- Formalisms or No Form at All -- NW's Thinking Forms -- References -- Notes -- Part Three -- Chapter 55 Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 56 Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish Literature -- Introduction -- The Cultural Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Banal Nationalism -- Imagining the Social Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Essentialism |
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