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Autore: |
Keulks Gavin
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Titolo: |
Father and Son : Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel since 1950 [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | Madison, WI, USA, : University of Wisconsin Press, 20080301 |
University of Wisconsin Press | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.91409 |
Soggetto topico: | LITERARY CRITICISM |
General | |
English fiction - History and criticism - 20th century - Great Britain | |
Fathers and sons | |
English | |
English Literature | |
Languages & Literatures | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Amises, Tradition, and Influence: Genealogical Dissent -- Brief Anecdotal History: The Mid-1980s and Mid-1990s -- Tradition, Influence, and Anxiety -- Realism and Revaluation -- PART 1. CRITICAL CARTOGRAPHY: CHARTING THE ARTISTIC ALLEGIANCES -- 1. The Amises on American Literature: Nabokov, Bellow, Roth -- Vladimir Nabokov: Style as Morality -- Saul Bellow: Prophetic Realism -- Philip Roth: Egocentric Narration -- 2. The Amises on English Literature: Austen, Waugh, Larkin -- Jane Austen: Mannered Morality -- Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall -- Philip Larkin: The Comedy of Candor -- PART 2. INFLUENCE AND INTERSECTION: THE INTERPLAY OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS -- 3. The Amises on Comedy: Lucky Jim and The Rachel Papers -- Lucky Jim: Cultural and Generational Conflict -- The Rachel Papers: Revaluative Inversion and Critique -- "The Two Amises" -- 4. The Amises on Satire: Ending Up and Dead Babies -- Henry Fielding and Horatian Satire -- Mikhail Bakhtin and Menippean Satire -- Characterization and Closure -- 5. The Amises on Realism and Postmodernism: Stanley and the Women and Money: A Suicide Note -- Chauvinism, Feminism, and Misogyny -- The Autobiographical Abyss: Jake's Thing and Stanley and the Women -- Revaluative Feminism? Money, Misogyny, and Doubling -- The Amises, Realism, and Postmodernism -- Revaluative Realism: Money and Metamimesis -- 6. The Amises on Love, Death, and Children: The Letters of Kingsley Amis and Experience: A Memoir -- Higher Autobiography: Experience, Midlife Crisis, and the Unconscious -- Personal Realignment: Hilly Redux -- Professional Realignment: The Old Devils -- Personal Realignment: Experience -- Conclusion: Projecting a Future: The Amises, Genealogical Dissent, and the British Novel since 1950 -- Whither the Novel? Realism, Postmodernism, and Beyond. |
After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the Event Horizons of Fiction -- Professional Realignment? Love, Children, and Night Train -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Father and son ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-26938-0 |
9786612269387 | |
0-299-19213-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823978703321 |
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