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Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Gavin Keulks

    1. Western Oregon University, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gavin Keulks
    Pages 1-8

  3. “My Heart Really Goes Out to Me”: The Self-indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers

    • Neil Brooks
    Pages 9-21

  4. Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis’s Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles

    • Richard Todd
    Pages 22-35

  5. The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis’s Money

    • Tamás Bényei
    Pages 36-54

  6. Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis’s Money

    • Emma Parker
    Pages 55-70

  7. Martin Amis and Late-twentieth-century Working-class Masculinity: Money and London Fields

    • Philip Tew
    Pages 71-86

  8. The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six

    • Susan Brook
    Pages 87-100

  9. Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime

    • Brian Finney
    Pages 101-116

  10. Under the Dark Sun of Melancholia: Writing and Loss in The Information

    • Catherine Bernard
    Pages 117-136

  11. Mimesis and Informatics in The Information

    • Richard Menke
    Pages 137-157

  12. W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis

    • Gavin Keulks
    Pages 158-179

  13. J.G. Ballard’s “Inner Space” and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis

    • James Diedrick
    Pages 180-196

  14. A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis’s “Higher Journalism”

    • M. Hunter Hayes
    Pages 197-210

  15. Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971–2005

    • James Diedrick, M. Hunter Hayes
    Pages 211-234

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-241
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About this book

This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike.

Reviews

'This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis's prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing.' - Nicolas Tredell, School of Humanities, University of Sussex, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

Editors and Affiliations

  • Western Oregon University, USA

    Gavin Keulks

About the editor

TAMAS BÉNYEI Senior Lecturer, Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary CATHERINE BERNARD Professor of English Literature, University of Paris 7, Denis Dierot, France SUSAN BROOK Assistant Professor in English, Simon Fraser University, Canada NEIL BROOKS Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada JAMES DIEDRICK Associate Dean of the College and Professor of English, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, USA BRIAN FINNEY Associate Professor in English, California State University, USA M. HUNTER HAYES Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA RICHARD MENKE Assistant Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA EMMA PARKER Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leicester, UK PHILIP TEW Professor of English, University of Northampton, UK RICHARD TODD Professor of British Literature, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

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