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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Routledge Guides to Literature |
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Routledge guides to literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and referencing; Introduction; 1: Life and contexts; The early years, 1949-73; Emerging from his father's shadow, 1974-84; The years of ascendancy, 1985-95; Responding to a changed world, 1995-2007; Further reading; 2: Works; Novels; The Rachel Papers (1973); Dead Babies (1975); Success (1978); Other People: A Mystery Story (1981); Money: A Suicide Note (1984); London Fields (1989); Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offense (1991); The Information (1995); Night Train (1997); Yellow Dog (2003); House of Meetings (2006) |
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Collections of short storiesEinstein's Monsters (1987); Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998); Autobiographical works; Experience: A Memoir (2000); Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002); Essay collections; The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986); Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993); The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (2001); Further reading; 3: Criticism; Intertextuality; Kingsley Amis; Vladimir Nabokov; Saul Bellow; Other instances; Contemporary reception of Amis's work; The Rachel Papers; From Other People to Time's Arrow |
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The later periodMajor thematic concerns; Doubling; Late modernity; Subjectivity and Amis's characters; Amis and postmodernism; Author, reader, narrator, and narration; Genre; Gendered readings; Linguistic inventiveness; Further reading; 4: Chronology; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to Amis's diverse and often controversial work offers:an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of his texts, from publication to the presentan introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Amis's life and work, situated within a broader critical historycross-references between sections of the gui |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136015342 |
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1136015345 |
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