This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath. -- .
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath. -- .
Miles Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester
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Introduction, Miles Leeson with Emma V. Miller Part I: Behind closed doors 1. Text, image, audience: Adaptation and reception of Andrea Newman's A Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1969) - Frances Pheasant-Kelly 2. Assuming a 'manly position': The crisis of masculinity in Ian McEwan's early fiction - Justine Gieni 3. 'Waking in the dark': Remembering incest in A Thousand Acres (1991), Exposure (1993) and Beautiful Kate (2009) - Rebecca White Part II: Incest and the child protagonist 4. 'The word is incest': Narrative, affect and judgement in and across the Lolitas - Matthew Pateman 5. Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children's literature - Alice Mills 6. '[B]orn to make a real life, however it cracks your heart': creative women and daydreaming in Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels (2008) - Emma V. Miller Part III: Incest as a political conceit 7. The desire for power and the power of desire: The case of Pier Paolo Pasolini - Michael Mack 8. 'Our close but prohibited union': Sibling incest, class and national identity in Iain Banks's The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007) - Robert Duggan 9. Is posthuman incest possible? Science fiction and the futures of the body - Alistair Brown Part IV: The rhetoric of narrating incest 10. 'Is't not a kind of incest?' Metaphor and relation in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - Charles Mundye 11. '[T]he thing that makes us different from other people': Narrating incest through 'différance' in the work of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing - Emma V. Miller and Miles Leeson 12. Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (1973) and Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins (1954) - Miles Leeson Index
Introduction, Miles Leeson with Emma V. Miller Part I: Behind closed doors 1. Text, image, audience: Adaptation and reception of Andrea Newman's A Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1969) - Frances Pheasant-Kelly 2. Assuming a 'manly position': The crisis of masculinity in Ian McEwan's early fiction - Justine Gieni 3. 'Waking in the dark': Remembering incest in A Thousand Acres (1991), Exposure (1993) and Beautiful Kate (2009) - Rebecca White Part II: Incest and the child protagonist 4. 'The word is incest': Narrative, affect and judgement in and across the Lolitas - Matthew Pateman 5. Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children's literature - Alice Mills 6. '[B]orn to make a real life, however it cracks your heart': creative women and daydreaming in Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels (2008) - Emma V. Miller Part III: Incest as a political conceit 7. The desire for power and the power of desire: The case of Pier Paolo Pasolini - Michael Mack 8. 'Our close but prohibited union': Sibling incest, class and national identity in Iain Banks's The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007) - Robert Duggan 9. Is posthuman incest possible? Science fiction and the futures of the body - Alistair Brown Part IV: The rhetoric of narrating incest 10. 'Is't not a kind of incest?' Metaphor and relation in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - Charles Mundye 11. '[T]he thing that makes us different from other people': Narrating incest through 'différance' in the work of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing - Emma V. Miller and Miles Leeson 12. Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (1973) and Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins (1954) - Miles Leeson Index
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