Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

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.

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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 Drg is Associate Professor at the University of Wrocaw 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).

Inhalt

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 Lanny

Julie Irigaray

5. "Peace, my stranger is a tree": Compassionate Experimentalism in Lanny

Alex J. Calder

6. Narrative Vision and Scopic Injustice in Lanny

Pawe 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 Lanny

Alice Durocher

9. Language as Percussion: The Brutal Style of The Death of Francis Bacon

Joseph Darlington

10. Ut Pictura Poesis: Speaking Paintings in The Death of Francis Bacon

Robert 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 Shy

David Rudrum and Pawe Wojtas