Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author:   Dr Roberta Garrett ,  Dr Liam Harrison ,  Associate Lecturer Liam Harrison (University of Birmingham) ,  Peter Childs (Newman University Birmingham UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
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Author:   Dr Roberta Garrett ,  Dr Liam Harrison ,  Associate Lecturer Liam Harrison (University of Birmingham) ,  Peter Childs (Newman University Birmingham UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350370982


ISBN 10:   1350370983
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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FOREWORD Clare Hanson (University of Southampton) INTRODUCTION Roberta Garrett (University of East London) and Liam Harrison (University of the West of England) CHAPTER ONE Life Style: Rachel Cusk and the Critique of Minimalism Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven) CHAPTER TWO Mother Courage and Mother-Shaming: Rachel Cusk’s Contribution to Maternal Feminism Roberta Garrett (University of East London) CHAPTER THREE Serial Metaphors: Revising and Rewriting in Rachel Cusk’s Life Narratives Ricarda Menn (KWI Essen) CHAPTER FOUR Perceptions of Failure in Rachel Cusk’s Saving Agnes and Second Place Sonja Pyykkö (Freie Universität Berlin) CHAPTER FIVE ‘Some things are artificial and some are authentic’: Rachel Cusk’s Depth Perception Daniel Lea (Oxford Brookes University) CHAPTER SIX Autofictional Experiments and Serial Aesthetics in Rachel Cusk’s OUTLINE Trilogy Melissa Schuh (CAU Kiel) CHAPTER SEVEN Being Sent to Coventry: Silence, Cruelty and Rachel Cusk’s Discrepant Style Liam Harrison (University of the West of England) AFTERWORD Second Text: Biography, Intertextuality, and Art in Second Place Peter Childs (Newman University) INTERVIEW An Interview with Rachel Cusk Merve Emre (Wesleyan University) REFERENCES INDEX

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"""Rachel Cusk is one of the most experimental, critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British female authors, and this collection is a lucid, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to her work."" --Jeannette Baxter, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, UK"


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Roberta Garrett is Senior lecturer on the Creative Writing programme and the Media Foundation programme in the Department of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of East London, UK. She has published widely on representations of gender, class and race in popular literature and film. She is the author of Postmodern Chick-Flicks (2008) and Writing the Modern Family (2021) and co-editor of We Need to Talk About Family (2016). Liam Harrison is a Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of the West of England, UK. He is also a founding editor of the Dublin-based literary journal Tolka. His research spans modernist legacies in contemporary literature, 21st-century Irish literature, publishing culture and autofiction. He is also a co-founder of the Contemporary Irish Literature Research Network.

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