Jim Crace

Into the Wilderness

Katy Shaw, Kate Aughterson, Katy Shaw, Kate Aughterson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783319940922
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319940939
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace's work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work within a number of contemporary interdisciplinary critical and cultural perspectives and concerns, including post-humanism, post-millennial pastoralism, post-post feminism and gender, intersections between science and literary theory, environmental politics, the symbiotics of authorial and critical archival work, and the context of the burgeoning world of literary prizes. It includes additional contextual material in the form of an interview with Jim Crace and the re-publication of a seminal critical essay on "Craceland" by Adam Begley. As such this critical essay collection will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary fiction, and Crace's unique writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• ‘Craceland’: An Introduction
• 1 Pastoral Negativities and the Dynamics of the Storyteller in Jim Crace’s Harvest
• 2 Pastoral Concerns in the Fictions of Jim Crace
• 3 Ecocriticism and Jim Crace’s Early Novels
• 4 ‘False patterns out of chaos’: Writing Beyond the Sense of an Ending in Being Dead and The Pesthouse
• 5 A Different Kind of Wilderness: Decomposition and Life in Jim Crace’s Being Dead
• 6 Absented Women’s Voices: Problematising Masculinity in Jim Crace’s Fiction
• 7 The Bald and the Beautiful: The Figure of the Shaven-Headed Female in the Fiction of Jim Crace
• 8 Searching for the Gleaning Fields: Gleaners and Leanness in Jim Crace’s Harvest
• 9 Thinking Crace: Consciousness and Cognition in Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Being Dead
• 10 Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds
• 11 An Atheist’s Spirituality: Jim Crace’s Post-Religious Fiction
• 12 “Sentences with Wings”: Jim Crace in Conversation with Dr Kate Aughterson
• Back Matter