The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.
The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.
Claire Allen, University of Northampton, UK Sonya Andermahr, University of Northampton, UK David Bradshaw, University of Oxford, UK R. H. Brown, University of Leeds, UK Jennifer Butler-Keeton, Forence-Lauderdale Public Library, USA Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull, UK R. J. Ellis, University of Birmingham, UK Susan Alice Fischer, University of New York, USA Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK Richard Jacobs, University of Brighton, UK Lawrence Phillips, Regent's University London, UK Wasfi Shoqairat, Al-Hussein bin Talal University, Jordan Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK Susie Thomas, University of Delaware, USA Nicolas Tredell, Freelance Editor, UK Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, USA Gina Whisker, University of Brighton, UK
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Introduction 1. Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness 2. 'Hasn't got any name': Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby 3. Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway 4. D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme 5. A Handful Of Dust Realism: Modernism / Irony: Sympathy 6. Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock 7. 'Come Down from Your Thinkin' and Listen a Minute': The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath 8. Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Revisited 9. Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 10. Lucky Jim : The Novel in Unchartered Times 11. Six myths of On the Road , and Where These Might Lead Us 12. 'A Good Old Red, White, and Blue Hundred-per-cent American Con Man': The Importance of Character in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 13. Herzog's Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental 'I.' 14. Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray's Lanark 15. Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus 16. Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo's White Noise 17. Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On 18. Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings 19. Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album 20. Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth Bibliography Index
Introduction 1. Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness 2. 'Hasn't got any name': Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby 3. Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway 4. D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme 5. A Handful Of Dust Realism: Modernism / Irony: Sympathy 6. Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock 7. 'Come Down from Your Thinkin' and Listen a Minute': The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath 8. Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Revisited 9. Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 10. Lucky Jim : The Novel in Unchartered Times 11. Six myths of On the Road , and Where These Might Lead Us 12. 'A Good Old Red, White, and Blue Hundred-per-cent American Con Man': The Importance of Character in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 13. Herzog's Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental 'I.' 14. Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray's Lanark 15. Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus 16. Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo's White Noise 17. Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On 18. Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings 19. Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album 20. Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth Bibliography Index
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