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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