Alan Hollinghurst - Writing Under the Influence

Informationen zum Autor Michèle Mendelssohn is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director at the Rothermere American InstituteDenis Flannery is Associate Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Leeds Klappentext An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. Zusammenfassung An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst! one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A dialogue on influence - Denis Flannery and Michèle Mendelssohn1. Hollinghurst's poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue2. The touch of reading in Hollinghurst's early prose - Angus Brown3. Poetry, parody, porn and prose - Michèle Mendelssohn4. Race, empire and The Swimming Pool Library - John McLeod5. The Stranger's Child and The Aspern Papers : queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past - Julie Rivkin6. Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in The Stranger's Child - Joseph Ronan7. Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in The Folding Star and The Spell - Robert L. Caserio8. Some properties of fiction: value and fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction - Geoff Gilbert9. Cinema in the library - Alan O'Leary10. Using Racine in 1990: or, translating theatre in time - Denis Flannery11. 'Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?': queer debates and contemporary connections - Kaye Mitchell12. What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography - Hermione Lee interviews Alan HollinghurstIndex

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• Authors: Michele Mendelssohn, Michele Flannery Mendelssohn
• Assisted by: Denis Flannery (Editor), Flannery Denis (Editor), Michele Mendelssohn (Editor), Mendelssohn Michele (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2016
• EAN: 9780719097171
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9717-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies