Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike.

'This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis's prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing.' - Nicolas Tredell, School of Humanities, University of Sussex, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

Autorentext
TAMAS BÉNYEI Senior Lecturer, Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary CATHERINE BERNARD Professor of English Literature, University of Paris 7, Denis Dierot, France SUSAN BROOK Assistant Professor in English, Simon Fraser University, Canada NEIL BROOKS Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada JAMES DIEDRICK Associate Dean of the College and Professor of English, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, USA BRIAN FINNEY Associate Professor in English, California State University, USA M. HUNTER HAYES Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA RICHARD MENKE Assistant Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA EMMA PARKER Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leicester, UK PHILIP TEW Professor of English, University of Northampton, UK RICHARD TODD Professor of British Literature, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; G.Keulks "My Heart Really Goes Out to Me": The Self-Indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers ; N.Brooks Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis's Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles; R.Todd The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis's Money ; T.Bényei Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis's Money ; E.Parker Martin Amis and Late Twentieth-Century Working-Class Masculinity: Money and London Fields ; P.Tew The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six; S.Brook Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime; B.Finney Under the Dark Sun of Melancolia: Writing and Loss in The Information ; C.Bernard Mimesis and Informatics in The Information ; R.Menke W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis; G.Keulks J.G. Ballard's "Inner Space" and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis; J.Diedrick A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis's "Higher" Journalism; M.Hunter Hayes Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971-2005: Bibliography; J.Diedrick & M.Hunter Hayes Index