Incest in contemporary literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leeson, Miles

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period. The collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and related arts. Incest in contemporary literature discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526122186
• Artikelnr.: 55006793

Autorenporträt

Miles Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Miles Leeson with Emma V. Miller Part I: Behind closed doors
1. Text, image, audience: Adaptation and reception of Andrea Newman's A
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1969) - Frances Pheasant-Kelly 2. Assuming a 'manly
position': The crisis of masculinity in Ian McEwan's early fiction -
Justine Gieni 3. 'Waking in the dark': Remembering incest in A Thousand
Acres (1991), Exposure (1993) and Beautiful Kate (2009) - Rebecca White
Part II: Incest and the child protagonist 4. 'The word is incest':
Narrative, affect and judgement in and across the Lolitas - Matthew Pateman
5. Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children's
literature - Alice Mills 6. '[B]orn to make a real life, however it cracks
your heart': creative women and daydreaming in Margo Lanagan's Tender
Morsels (2008) - Emma V. Miller Part III: Incest as a political conceit 7.
The desire for power and the power of desire: The case of Pier Paolo
Pasolini - Michael Mack 8. 'Our close but prohibited union': Sibling
incest, class and national identity in Iain Banks's The Steep Approach to
Garbadale (2007) - Robert Duggan 9. Is posthuman incest possible? Science
fiction and the futures of the body - Alistair Brown Part IV: The rhetoric
of narrating incest 10. 'Is't not a kind of incest?' Metaphor and relation
in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - Charles Mundye 11. '[T]he
thing that makes us different from other people': Narrating incest through
'différance' in the work of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing -
Emma V. Miller and Miles Leeson 12. Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in
Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (1973) and Simone de Beauvoir's The
Mandarins (1954) - Miles Leeson Index