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2020
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Publisher: Gylphi
230 pages
ISBN: 978-1780240923
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Nicola Barker: Critical Essays

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Nicola Barker's exuberant novels here receive the scholarly attention they deserve in a collection of essays which moves chronologically through her oeuvre. The chapters are broad-ranging, placing Barker's work in its contemporary context and collectively making a convincing case for her importance as one of our most inventive novelists. Contents Foreword Nicola Barker The Barkeresque Mode: An Introduction Berthold Schoene Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic Ben Masters 'Temporary People': Wide Open as an Island Narrative Daniel Marc Janes 'You grew up in this shithole, then?': Literary Geographics and the Thames Gateway Series Len Platt 'The Pair of Opposites Paradox': Ambivalence, Destabilization and Resistance in Five Miles from Outer Hope Ginette Carpenter 'Woah there a moment. Time out!': Slowing Down in Clear: A Transparent Novel Beccy Kennedy Beneath the Thin Veneer of the Modern: Medievalism in Darkmans Christopher Vardy Burley Cross Postbox Theft as Comedy Huw Marsh 'Tuning into My "Awareness Continuum"': Optimized Attention in The Yips Alice Bennett Exuberant Narration as Metaphysical Currency in In the Approaches Berthold Schoene The Pursuit of Happiness in H(A)PPY , or What a Difference an (A) Makes Eleanor Byrne Notes on Contributors Index

Book Information

Title:Nicola Barker: Critical Essays
Author:China Mieville
Series:Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Books
Book Number:#8
Published:2020
Pages:230
ISBN-10:1780240929
ISBN-13:978-1780240923
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This book is part of the Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Books series and is book #8 in the series.