Martin Amis Postmodernism and Beyond [Hardcover]

This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike.Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; G.Keulks My Heart Really Goes Out to Me : The Self-Indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers ; N.Brooks Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis's Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles; R.Todd The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis's Money ; T.B?nyei Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis's Money ; E.Parker Martin Amis and Late Twentieth-Century Working-Class Masculinity: Money and London Fields ; P.Tew The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six; S.Brook Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime; B.Finney Under the Dark Sun of Melancolia: Writing and Loss in The Information ; C.Bernard Mimesis and Informatics in The Information ; R.Menke W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis; G.Keulks J.G. Ballard's Inner Space and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis; J.Diedrick A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis's Higher Journalism; M.Hunter Hayes Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971-2005: Bibliography; J.Diedrick & M.Hunter Hayes Index

'This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliogralÚ