Alan Hollinghurst

Writing under the influence
Herausgeber: Mendelssohn, Michele; Flannery, Denis

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Produktbeschreibung

An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781526134288
• ISBN-10: 1526134284
• Artikelnr.: 52914214

Autorenporträt

Michèle Mendelssohn is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director at the Rothermere American Institute Denis Flannery is Associate Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A dialogue on influence - Denis Flannery and Michèle
Mendelssohn 1. Hollinghurst's poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue 2. The touch of
reading in Hollinghurst's early prose - Angus Brown 3. Poetry, parody, porn
and prose - Michèle Mendelssohn 4. Race, empire and The Swimming Pool
Library - John McLeod 5. The Stranger's Child and The Aspern Papers:
queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past - Julie Rivkin
6. Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in The Stranger's Child - Joseph
Ronan 7. Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in The Folding Star and
The Spell - Robert L. Caserio 8. Some properties of fiction: value and
fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction - Geoff Gilbert 9. Cinema in the
library - Alan O'Leary 10. Using Racine in 1990: or, translating theatre in
time - Denis Flannery 11. 'Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?':
queer debates and contemporary connections - Kaye Mitchell 12. What can I
say? Secrets in fiction and biography - Hermione Lee interviews Alan
Hollinghurst Index