| Description |
1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in British Literature Series |
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Routledge Studies in British Literature Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: The rise and rise of Max Porter -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 2: Innocence, experience and other childly songs in Max Porter's works -- Contaminating childhood -- Texting childhood -- Vanishing childhood -- Consuming childhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 3: "Pitiful narrative creatures": Grief-haunted temporalities in the work of Max Porter -- The Death of Francis Bacon : Grotesque grief and narrative jamming |
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Lanny : Speculative endings and eerie hope -- Grief Is the Thing with Feathers : Stuttering narrative progression and the myth of moving on -- Porter's "howling sorry" as a memento mori -- Works cited -- Chapter 4: "An English totem": Constructions of Englishness in Lanny -- Materialism, competitiveness and middle-class English culture -- Conformity and the cult of the countryside -- Myth and history -- The English literary tradition, paganism and folklore -- Xenophobia, imperialism and Brexit -- Conclusion -- Works cited |
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Chapter 5: "Peace, my stranger is a tree": Compassionate Experimentalism in Lanny -- Generic hybridity -- Narrating community: Polyphony, mythology, ecology -- Social othering and playful alternatives -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 6: Narrative vision and scopic injustice in Lanny -- Literature and vision -- Rural panopticism -- Panoptical injustices -- The spectacle of illusion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 7: "Is this one of your endings?": Lanny and the humanist limits of narrative possibility -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 8: Lost futures and ecophobia in Lanny |
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Dead Papa Toothwort: Environmental awe and terror -- Ecophobia: The human response to Dead Papa Toothwort -- Lanny's lost futures -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works cited -- Chapter 9: Language as percussion: The brutal style of The Death of Francis Bacon -- The visual arts in Porter's earlier novels -- Francis Bacon and the impact of brutality -- The Death of Francis Bacon and the physicality of text -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 10: Ut pictura poesis : Speaking paintings in The Death of Francis Bacon -- Notes -- Works cited |
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Chapter 11: Ornithology as intertextuality: A guide to Max Porter's birds (and where to find them) -- A note on field notes (and all that jizz) -- Hughes's crow -- Dickinson's hummingbird -- Flaubert's parrot -- Poe's raven -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 12: A colloquy on Shy -- Shy's lost futures -- Taking up Shy's burden -- On casting the first stone -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century; this book is the first study of his works to date |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wojtas, Paweł
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ąg, Wojciech
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| ISBN |
9781003857488 |
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1003857485 |
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