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Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century; this book is the first study of his works to date.
List of contents
1. The Rise and Rise of Max Porter
Wojciech Dr¿g
2. Innocence, Experience and Other Childly Songs in Max Porter's Works
Clémentine Beauvais
3. "Pitiful narrative creatures": Grief-Haunted Temporalities in the Work of Max Porter
Lindsey Drager
4. "An English totem": Constructions of Englishness in
LannyJulie Irigaray
5. "Peace, my stranger is a tree": Compassionate Experimentalism in
LannyAlex J. Calder
6. Narrative Vision and Scopic Injustice in
LannyPawe¿ Wojtas
7. "Is this one of your endings?"
Lanny and the Humanist Limits of Narrative Possibility
Tom Z. Bradstreet
8. Lost Futures and Ecophobia in
LannyAlice Durocher
9. Language as Percussion: The Brutal Style of
The Death of Francis BaconJoseph Darlington
10.
Ut Pictura Poesis: Speaking Paintings in
The Death of Francis BaconRobert Kusek and Wojciech Szymäski
11. Ornithology as Intertextuality: A Guide to Max Porter's Birds (and Where to Find Them)
David Rudrum and James Underwood
12. A Colloquy on
ShyDavid Rudrum and Pawe¿ Wojtas
About the author
David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Most of his work explores the interdisciplinary relations between contemporary philosophy and literature. Previous publications include
New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (2019),
Supplanting the Postmodern (2015) and
Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013).
Pawe¿ Wojtas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. His research interests include contemporary English and related literature, as well as literary and cultural disability studies. He is the author of
Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (2024).
Wojciech Dr¿g is Associate Professor at the University of Wroc¿aw in Poland. He is the author of
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (2020) and
Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (2014).
