Jonathan Coe

ISBN-13: 9781137405821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str.

Vanessa Guignery

Opis

Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of Coe's work, offering readers a comprehensive and accessible overview of his novels, fiction and other writings, as well as the surrounding criticism. The volume also features a new interview with Coe.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface  Acknowledgements  PART I: INTRODUCTION  Timeline  1. Introduction  2. A Biographical Reading  PART II: MAJOR WORKS  3. 'Funny, Brutalist and Short': The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love and The Dwarves of Death  4. State-of-the-nation Novels: What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle  5. Gravity and Grace: The House of Sleep and The Rain before it Falls  6. Everyman on the Road and Abroad: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58  PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS 7. Author Interview  8. Other Writings  9. Critical Reception  Bibliography  Index.

O autorze

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of Novelists in the New Millennium (2012), also published by Palgrave Macmillan.