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- English
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Critical Perspectives on Max Porter
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 The rise and rise of Max Porter
- 2 Innocence, experience and other childly songs in Max Porter’s works
- 3 “Pitiful narrative creatures”: Grief-haunted temporalities in the work of Max Porter
- 4 “An English totem”: Constructions of Englishness in Lanny
- 5 “Peace, my stranger is a tree”: Compassionate Experimentalism in Lanny
- 6 Narrative vision and scopic injustice in Lanny
- 7 “Is this one of your endings?”: Lanny and the humanist limits of narrative possibility
- 8 Lost futures and ecophobia in Lanny
- 9 Language as percussion: The brutal style of The Death of Francis Bacon
- 10 Ut pictura poesis: Speaking paintings in The Death of Francis Bacon
- 11 Ornithology as intertextuality: A guide to Max Porter’s birds (and where to find them)
- 12 A colloquy on Shy
- Index