Taps into the fact that since the first edition, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience - he's won the Booker Prize for a second time, and Oscar and Lucinda' has been made into a successful feature film. Revised and expanded, this edition features detailed readings of the latest novels - Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang. Sets Carey's work in the context of his life and influences, showing him to be a disturbing postcolonial writer as well as a great entertainer. Stresses the political concerns of Carey's work. Employs previously neglected radio interviews...

Nature, love, politics, places, friends, cats, fathers, sons - all form springboards for poems in this collection, the first of a two-part edition.

This second volume of a two-part edition contains poems about Greece, Thailand and Ireland, as well as pianos, rabbits and Freud.

A collection of essays on literature and film covering Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs' read through Marx's critique of capitalism, John Fowles's 'A Maggot', Andrea Levy's 'Small Island', Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' in relation to Taoism, Gillian Armstrong's film 'My Brilliant Career', the political writing of Tom Paine, Michael Thelwell's novel 'The Harder They Come', Caribbean fiction including Wilson Harris, Ralph de Boissiere, Zee Edgell, Erna Brodber and Earl Lovelace, and post-colonial London in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sam Selvon and Derek Walcott.

A volume of essays on the theme of the political imagination, covering a range of poets and poetry including: Sean O'Brien, Tony Harrison, Thom Gunn, Paul Durcan, Derek Walcott, Caribbean women poets (including Louise Bennett, Jackie Kay, Jean Binta Breeze, Grace Nichols, Elean Thomas, Valerie Bloom, Merle, Collins, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior, Christine Craig, Maud Sulter, Amryl Johnson), Metaphysical poetry and masculinity in John Donne.

John Fowles is one of the most significant British novelists of the second half of the twentieth century, exploring the possibilities and limits of individual freedom in narratives which challenge, startle and entertain with their virtuosity. Influenced by existentialism and a newly-emergent wave of feminism, his depictions of men, male power and masculinity expose the inherrent contradictions lived out not just by his characters, but also himself as a male novelist. While laying bare masculinity as a social and cultural construct, Fowles also dramatises his own contradictory status as part...

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