Writing Liverpool [[electronic resource] ] : Essays and Interviews

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453875403321
• Autore: Jones Deryn Rees
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 1-78138-685-4; 1-84631-447-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MurphyMichael
• Disciplina: 820.9942753; 828.920808
• Soggetti: English literature; English Literature; English; Languages & Literatures; Electronic books.; Liverpool (England) In literature; Liverpool (England) Intellectual life 20th century; Liverpool (England) Intellectual life 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Sounding Liverpool; 1: George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States; 2: 'No Struggle but the Home': James Hanley's The Furys; 3: Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool; 4: 'Unhomely Moments': The Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge; 5: A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell; 6: The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies; 7: 'Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes': The Poetry of Brian Patten; 8: Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough9: Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers; 10: Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant; 11: Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool; 12: 'We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk': An Interview with Alan Bleasdale; 13: 'Culture Is Ordinary': The Legacy of ; the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writers; 14: 'I've Got a Theory about Scousers': Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante; 15: Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell; 16: Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting17: Putting Down Roots: An Interview with Levi Tafari; 18: 'Out of Transformations': Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first Century
• Sommario/riassunto: Roger McGough, Levi Tafari, Willy Russell, Terence Davies, James Hanley, George Garrett, J.G. Farrell, Brian Patten, Adrian Henri, Beryl Bainbridge, Jimmy McGovern, Alan Bleasdale, Helen Forrester, Lyn Andrews, Margaret Murphy, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell... no matter what the genre Liverpool seems to have generated some of the most provocative and interesting writers of the last seventy-five years. Intended to mark and celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday in 2007 and its status as European City of Culture in 2008, this collection of essays and interviews addresses the wide range of writing