TY - BOOK
T1 - Critical Perspectives on Max Porter
A2 - Rudrum, David
A2 - Wojtas, Paweł
A2 - Drąg, Wojciech
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, David Rudrum, Paweł Wojtas, and Wojciech Drąg; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2024/2/27
Y1 - 2024/2/27
N2 - Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study of his works to date, which encompass Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon (2021) and Shy (2023). It features a broad interdisciplinary array of essays (by poets, novelists, literary critics, art historians and educationalists), which collectively place Porter’s works in their contexts, shed light on his artistic vision and interpret his texts from a range of critical perspectives. The volume’s 12 chapters combine readings of the literary, formal, intertextual and experimental aspects of Porter’s works with discussions of their relation to social, political and ethical questions, whilst placing them in dialogue with highly topical critical and cultural debates, such as Englishness in the aftermath of Brexit, ecocriticism, affectivity and posthumanism.
AB - Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study of his works to date, which encompass Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon (2021) and Shy (2023). It features a broad interdisciplinary array of essays (by poets, novelists, literary critics, art historians and educationalists), which collectively place Porter’s works in their contexts, shed light on his artistic vision and interpret his texts from a range of critical perspectives. The volume’s 12 chapters combine readings of the literary, formal, intertextual and experimental aspects of Porter’s works with discussions of their relation to social, political and ethical questions, whilst placing them in dialogue with highly topical critical and cultural debates, such as Englishness in the aftermath of Brexit, ecocriticism, affectivity and posthumanism.
KW - Max Porter
KW - British writers
KW - twenty-first century
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195753432&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781032662374
DO - 10.4324/9781032662374
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85195753432
SN - 9781032662367
BT - Critical Perspectives on Max Porter
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ER -