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Understanding Will Self (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Understanding Will Self (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature
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Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and
expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array
of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story
collection, ""The Quantity Theory of Sanity"". In this guide to the
well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes
examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural
commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual
analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of
Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into
journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly
improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas,
and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode
of writing that he has aptly termed ""dirty magical realism.""
Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through
successive works and in relation with their environments. He places
Self's writing within its historical and critical contexts and uses
each chapter to address either a single work or a group of closely
connected works. Hayes' analyses range from well-regarded novels to
notable yet uncollected short stories and draw upon secondary
critical texts to reassess Self's critical standing.
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