Waking Up In Toytown
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Waking Up In Toytown
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Author : John Burnside
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Waking Up In Toytown written by John Burnside and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as he relapses into chaos, he encounters a homicidal office worker who is obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and Petula Clark, an old lover, with whom he reprises a troubled, masochistic relationship and, finally, the seemingly flesh-and-blood embodiemnts of all his private phantoms. The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, Waking Up in Toytown is unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest.
John Burnside
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Author : Ben Davies
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-06
John Burnside written by Ben Davies and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers. John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as The Dumb House, The Light Trap, A Lie about My Father, Glister and Black Cat Bone. The book examines the major themes of Burnside's work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the first authoritative guide to this major contemporary writer.
Haunted Spaces In Twenty First Century British Nature Writing
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Author : Anneke Lubkowitz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-06-08
Haunted Spaces In Twenty First Century British Nature Writing written by Anneke Lubkowitz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.
Attachment Volume 5 Number 3
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Author : Kate White
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Attachment Volume 5 Number 3 written by Kate White and has been published by Phoenix Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Psychology categories.
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work. It includes up to date briefings on latest developments in neuroscience relevant to psychotherapy and counseling and is an international journal with contributions from colleagues from different countries and cultures. Articles - The Application of the Dynamic–Maturational Model of Attachment to Psychotherapy and Some Reflections on Practice by Chris Purnell - Interpersonal Childhood Trauma: Betrayal Trauma and the Accommodation Complex: Attachment Gone Wrong by Richard Cross - The Experience of Adult Siblings Born After Loss by Joann M. O’Leary and Cecilie Gaziano - Lust, Devotion, and the Binary Code: Sex in Iran by Kamin Mohammadi
Autofiction In English
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Author : Hywel Dix
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Autofiction In English written by Hywel Dix and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other areas of French theory, English-language discussion of autofiction has been relatively limited - until now. Starting out by exploring the characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a conceptual standpoint, the collection identifies a number of cultural, historical and theoretical contexts in which the emergence of autofiction in English can be understood. In the process, it identifies what is new and distinctive about Anglophone forms of autofiction when compared to its French equivalents. These include a preoccupation with the conditions of authorship; writing after trauma; and a heightened degree of authorial self-reflexivity beyond that typically associated with postmodernism. By concluding that there is such a field as autofiction in English, it provides for the first time detailed analysis of the major works in that field and a concise historical overview of its emergence. It thus opens up new avenues in life writing and authorship research.
The Beach In Anglophone Literatures And Cultures
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Author : Ursula Kluwick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Beach In Anglophone Literatures And Cultures written by Ursula Kluwick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.
All The Tiny Moments Blazing
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Author : Ged Pope
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2022-10-24
All The Tiny Moments Blazing written by Ged Pope and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London. The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith’s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.
Whitaker S Shorts Five Years In Review
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Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Whitaker S Shorts Five Years In Review written by Bloomsbury Publishing and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Reference categories.
Now in its 146th edition Whitaker's Almanack is the definitive reference guide containing a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. Available only as ebooks, Whitaker's Shorts are selected themed sections from Whitaker's Almanack: portable and perfect for those with specific interests within the print edition. Whitaker's Shorts: Five Years in Review includes a digest of the year's events from 2008-9 to 2012-13 in the UK and abroad and articles covering subjects as diverse as Archaeology, Conservation, Business and Finance, Opera, Dance, Film and Weather. There is also an A-Z listing of all the results for the major sporting events from Alpine Skiing through to Fencing, Football, Horse Racing, Polo and Tennis.
New Suburban Stories
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Author : Martin Dines
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-12
New Suburban Stories written by Martin Dines and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.
New Essays On John Clare
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Author : Simon Kövesi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-29
New Essays On John Clare written by Simon Kövesi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.