Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-66236-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in British Literature

Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study of his works to date, which encompass Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon (2021) and Shy (2023). It features a broad interdisciplinary array of essays (by poets, novelists, literary critics, art historians and educationalists), which collectively place Porter’s works in their contexts, shed light on his artistic vision and interpret his texts from a range of critical perspectives. The volume’s 12 chapters combine readings of the literary, formal, intertextual and experimental aspects of Porter’s works with discussions of their relation to social, political and ethical questions, whilst placing them in dialogue with highly topical critical and cultural debates, such as Englishness in the aftermath of Brexit, ecocriticism, affectivity and posthumanism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudrum, David

Wojtas, Pawe¿

Wojtas, Pawel

Dr¿g, Wojciech

Drag, Wojciech

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Rise and Rise of Max Porter

Wojciech Drag

 

2. Innocence, Experience and Other Childly Songs in Max Porter’s Works

Clémentine Beauvais

 

3. “Pitiful narrative creatures”: Grief-Haunted Temporalities in the Work of Max Porter

Lindsey Drager

 

4. “An English totem”: Constructions of Englishness in Lanny

Julie Irigaray

 

5. “Peace, my stranger is a tree”: Compassionate Experimentalism in Lanny

Alex J. Calder

 

6. Narrative Vision and Scopic Injustice in Lanny

Pawel Wojtas

 

7. “Is this one of your endings?” Lanny and the Humanist Limits of Narrative Possibility

Tom Z. Bradstreet

 

8. Lost Futures and Ecophobia in Lanny

Alice Durocher

 

9. Language as Percussion: The Brutal Style of The Death of Francis Bacon

Joseph Darlington

 

10. Ut Pictura Poesis: Speaking Paintings in The Death of Francis Bacon

Robert Kusek and Wojciech Szymanski

 

11. Ornithology as Intertextuality: A Guide to Max Porter’s Birds (and Where to Find Them)

David Rudrum and James Underwood

 

12. A Colloquy on Shy

David Rudrum and Pawel Wojtas

Über Autor(innen)

David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Most of his work explores the interdisciplinary relations between contemporary philosophy and literature. Previous publications include New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (2019), Supplanting the Postmodern (2015) and Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013).

Pawel Wojtas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. His research interests include contemporary English and related literature, as well as literary and cultural disability studies. He is the author of Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (2024).

Wojciech Drag is Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. He is the author of Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (2020) and Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (2014).