Father and son : Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British novel since 1950 /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Amises, tradition, and influence: genealogical dissent
- Brief anecdotal history: the mid-1980s and mid-1990s
- Tradition, influence, and anxiety
- Realism and revaluation
- I: 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
- II: 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 reminism? 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 Kinsley 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
- Projecting a future: the Amises, genealogical dissent, and the British novel since 1950
- Whither and novel? Realism, postmodernism, and beyond
- After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the event horizons of fiction
- Professional realignment? Love, children, and night train.