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 Craces 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 Craces unique writing.
Craceland: An Introduction .-1 Pastoral Negativities and the Dynamics of the Storyteller in Jim Craces Harvest.-2 Pastoral Concerns in the Fictions of Jim Crace .-3 Ecocriticism and Jim Craces 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 Craces Being Dead.-6 Absented Womens Voices: Problematising Masculinity in Jim Craces 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 Craces Harvest .-9 Thinking Crace: Consciousness and Cognition in Jim Craces Quarantine and Being Dead .-10 Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds 11 An Atheists Spirituality: Jim Craces Post-Religious Fiction .- 12 Sentences with Wl³"
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