Patrick Mcgrath

Informationen zum Autor Professor Sue Zlosnik is head of the English department at Manchester Metropolitan University. Klappentext One of the most successful and critically acclaimed authors in Britain! Patrick McGrath has also been a key figure in the recent resurgence of interest in the Gothic. This book! the first full-length study of McGrath and his work! looks at McGrath's writing through the lens of the Gothic! showing how he has pushed the boundaries of the genre! using the conventional trappings of the Gothic in creative! even parodic new ways. Drawn in part from interviews with McGrath! some previously unpublished! the book not only sets McGrath's work in the context of the Gothic tradition and his own times! but also helps the reader understand McGrath's own sense of his identity as a writer. Zusammenfassung Patrick McGrath is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists but very little has been written about his work to date. This new book offers readings of McGrath's fiction informed by recent scholarship and evaluates his creative contribution to the continuation of the Gothic tradition into the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Playing with Gothic The Transgressive Self Worlds New and Old Afterword: Exorcizing the Ghosts of the Gothic?

Product details

• Authors: Sue Zlosnic, Sue Zlosnik
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.06.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780708323755
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2375-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions; Gothic Authors: Critical Revis; Gothic Authors: Critical Revis; Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Gothic, Patrick, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Romanticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, McGrath