Reading Graham Swift

Edited by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczyńska - Contributions by Donald Kaczvinsky; Sławomir Konkol; Bożena Kucała; Anastasia Logotheti; David Malcolm; Katarzyna Ostalska; Catherine Pesso-Miquel; Adam Sumera; Philip Tew and Katarzyna Więckowska

This collection of essays on Graham Swift’s fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift’s oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift’s fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift’s work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

Lexington Books

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-6951-4 • Hardback • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-6952-1 • eBook • November 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Reading Graham Swift

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Summary

This collection of essays on Graham Swift’s fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift’s oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift’s fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift’s work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-6951-4 • Hardback • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-6952-1 • eBook • November 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Author

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.

Marta Goszczyńska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczyńska

Part 1: Beginnings and Continuities

Chapter 1: Trauma and Confliction in The Sweet-Shop Owner and Waterland

Philip Tew

Chapter 2: Reticent Detecting: The Evolution of Swift’s (Un)Confessing Narrators

Anastasia Logotheti

Chapter 3: Masculinity as Failure: Male Characters in Learning to Swim and England and Other Stories

Katarzyna Ostalska

Part 2: Progressions and Evolutions

Chapter 4: Nostalgia, Sentiments, and Men in Out of This World

Katarzyna Więckowska

Chapter 5: The Father Delusion in Ever After

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz

Chapter 6: Filming the Unfilmable: Last Orders on Screen

Adam Sumera

Chapter 7: Re-Joycing Tomorrow: Graham Swift, Artificial Insemination, and the Question of Literary Paternity

Donald Kaczvinsky

Part 3: Recent Developments

Chapter 8: Forget ‘Green English Fields’: War(s) in Wish You Were Here

Catherine Pesso-Miquel

Chapter 9: Spectres of Silence in Wish You Were Here

Sławomir Konkol

Chapter 10: The England in Englandand Other Stories

David Malcolm

Chapter 11: Lost for Words: Narration, Language and Communication in England and Other Stories

Marta Goszczyńska

Chapter 12: ‘So How Did You Become a Writer?’: Metafictional Concerns in Mothering Sunday

Bożena Kucała