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From Banks's brewery's yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy
curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new
literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong
to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United
Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a
veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between
olfaction and place-specific memory. Smell, Memory, and Literature
in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the
relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions
consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology,
neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the
critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge
sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell,
language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from
writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright,
and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity.
Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of
the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place
writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the
start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists,
scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating
the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution,
climate change and an ageing population on our world.
This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the
start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists,
scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating
the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution,
climate change and an ageing population on our world.
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major
socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to
the development of literature over the decade. This book is the
first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be
understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history,
its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital
constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a
major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative
about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions
of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as
Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also
pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn,
Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G.
Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing
power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major
socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to
the development of literature over the decade. This book is the
first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be
understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history,
its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital
constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a
major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative
about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions
of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as
Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also
pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn,
Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G.
Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing
power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
This is an up-to-date critical collection on the work of
contemporary British novelist, Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes is one
of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals
of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many
literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. Although primarily a
novelist and essayist, the 'chameleon of British letters' has also
written short stories, television scripts and a screenplay. This
critical guide provides a wide range of current critical
perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels
"Flaubert's Parrot and "The History of the World in 10-1/2
Chapters" up to "Arthur and George". Including contributions by
some of the finest critics working in the contemporary field, it
reflects the richness and diversity of one of Britain's greatest
living writers. "Guides in the Contemporary Critical Perspectives"
series provide companions to reading and studying major
contemporary authors. Each guide includes new critical essays
combining textual readings, cultural analysis and discussion of key
critical and theoretical issues in a clear, accessible style. They
also include a preface by a major contemporary writer, a new
interview with the author, discussion of film and TV adaptation and
guidance on further reading.
This is an up-to-date critical collection on the work of
contemporary British novelist, Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes is one
of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals
of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many
literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. Although primarily a
novelist and essayist, the 'chameleon of British letters' has also
written short stories, television scripts and a screenplay. This
critical guide provides a wide range of current critical
perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels
"Flaubert's Parrot and "The History of the World in 10-1/2
Chapters" up to "Arthur and George". Including contributions by
some of the finest critics working in the contemporary field, it
reflects the richness and diversity of one of Britain's greatest
living writers. "Guides in the Contemporary Critical Perspectives"
series provide companions to reading and studying major
contemporary authors. Each guide includes new critical essays
combining textual readings, cultural analysis and discussion of key
critical and theoretical issues in a clear, accessible style. They
also include a preface by a major contemporary writer, a new
interview with the author, discussion of film and TV adaptation and
guidance on further reading.
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished
contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author,
television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of
Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years
produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it
is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian
McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive
platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood,
place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic
representation. As a Japanese immigrant who came to Great Britain
in 1960, Ishiguro has used his unique position and fine
intellectual abilities to contemplate what it means to be British
in the contemporary era. This guide traces the main themes
throughout Ishiguro's writing whilst it also pays attention to his
short stories and writing for television. It includes a new
interview with the author, a preface by Haruki Murakami and
discussion of James Ivory's adaptation of The Remains of the
Day.>
Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial,
British novelists working today. His books are both critically -
and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the
world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short
stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film
adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive
character that explores questions of morality, place and history,
nationhood, sexuality and gender. Now fully updated for its second
edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical
perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works
and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and
original analyses of the later work, including new readings of his
latest books, Solar and Sweet Tooth. With an updated and extended
guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes
an interview with the author himself, a chronology of his life,
work and times and the full text of a lost early McEwan short
story.
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct
historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states
of emergency, a supposed "clash of civilizations," and the putative
legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from
extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no
date, since Virginia Woolf declared that "on or about December 1910
human character changed," has marked such a singular point in the
perception of time, identity and nature. Women's writing has always
been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and
point of view beyond that of the "man" of reason. This collection
of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a
woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished
contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author,
television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of
Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years
produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it
is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian
McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive
platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood,
place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic
representation. As a Japanese immigrant who came to Great Britain
in 1960, Ishiguro has used his unique position and fine
intellectual abilities to contemplate what it means to be British
in the contemporary era. This guide traces the main themes
throughout Ishiguro's writing whilst it also pays attention to his
short stories and writing for television. It includes a new
interview with the author, a preface by Haruki Murakami and
discussion of James Ivory's adaptation of The Remains of the Day.
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