Rachel Cusk
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Rachel Cusk

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rachel Cusk

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

About this book

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experimentation and a desire to push against established cultural models. Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the first critical guide to Cusk's work, spanning novels including Saving Agnes, A Country Life, and Second Place, her 'autofictional' Outline trilogy, and her nonfiction A Life's Work, The Last Supper, Aftermath and the Coventry essays. Rigorous and wide-ranging, this book provides an accessible and lucid introduction to Cusk's work, exploring themes of gender relations, class dynamics, maternal identity and creative freedom. The collection concludes with an in-depth interview with Cusk, conducted by Merve Emre, reflecting on her influences, writing and experiences. Mapping the formal and stylistic shift across her career and locating them within their specific contexts, this collection provides a crucial analysis of Cusk's influences, politics, and literary techniques that speak to many of the most pressing issues in contemporary literature.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781350370982
eBook ISBN
9781350370999
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Contemporary Critical Perspectives
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Series Editorsā€™ Preface
  9. Contributors
  10. Foreword
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Life Style: Rachel Cusk and the Critiqueof Minimalism
  13. 2 Mother Courage and Mother Shaming: Rachel Cuskā€™s Contribution to Maternal Feminism
  14. 3 Serial Metaphors: Revising and Rewriting in Rachel Cuskā€™s Life Narratives
  15. 4 Perceptions of Failure in Rachel Cuskā€™s Saving Agnes and Second Place
  16. 5 ā€˜Some things are artificial and some are authenticā€™: Rachel Cuskā€™s Depth Perception
  17. 6 Autofictional Experiments and Serial Aesthetics in Rachel Cuskā€™s Outline Trilogy
  18. 7 Being Sent to Coventry: Silence, Cruelty and Rachel Cuskā€™s Discrepant Style
  19. Afterword: Second Text: Biography, Intertextuality, and Art in Second Place
  20. An Interview with Rachel Cusk
  21. Index