G. Matthews

Will Self and Contemporary British Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137486561
• Artikelnr.: 44906214

Autorenporträt

Graham J. Matthews is Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He is the author of Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism (2012), co-editor of Violence and the Limits of Representation (2013), and has contributed to numerous journals and edited collections on contemporary literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Magus of the Quotidian
1. 'This Great Torrent of Verbiage': Will Self and Satire
2. 'The Unfailing Regularity of Dr Busner': Will Self and the Psychiatrists
3. 'These Artisans of the Body': Will Self and the Doctors
4. 'Fucking and Fighting': Will Self and Gender
5. 'A Psyche Available for Product Placement': Will Self and Consumption
6. 'Dissolving the Mechanised Matrix': Will Self and Psychogeography
Bibliography
Index