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John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
 
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ISBN13:9781350237445
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John Burnside

Contemporary Critical Perspectives
 
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Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers.

John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as The Dumb House, The Light Trap, A Lie about My Father, Glister and Black Cat Bone. The book examines the major themes of Burnside's work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the first authoritative guide to this major contemporary writer.
Table of Contents:
Series Editors' Preface

Foreword: Nicholas Royle

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Chronology of John Burnside's Life


INTRODUCTION By Way of an Introduction: John Burnside, Writer
Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth)

CHAPTER ONE John Burnside's Metaphysical World: From The Dumb House to A Summer of Drowning
Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham)

CHAPTER TWO John Burnside's Numinous Poetry
Jan Wilm (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany)

CHAPTER THREE 'A temporary, sometimes fleeting thing': Home in John Burnside's Poetry
Monika Szuba (Gdansk University, Poland)

CHAPTER FOUR Violent Dwellings and Vulnerable Creatures in Burning Elvis and Something Like Happy
Alexandra Campbell (University of Edinburgh)

CHAPTER FIVE 'This learned set of limits and blames': Masculinity, Law and Prohibition in the Work of John Burnside
Ruth Cain (University of Kent)

CHAPTER SIX Consequences of Pastoral: The Dialectic of History and Ecology in The Light Trap
Tom Bristow (University of Durham)

CHAPTER SEVEN Walking the Tightrope: Félix Guattari's Three Ecologies and John Burnside's Glister
Phil Pass (Independent Scholar)

CHAPTER EIGHT 'A Kindred Shape': Hauntings, Spectres and the Poetics of Return in John Burnside's Verse
David Borthwick (University of Glasgow)

CHAPTER NINE 'It was suddenly hard winter': John Burnside's Crossings
Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth)

INTERVIEW The Space at the back of the Mind: An Interview with John
Burnside
Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth)



Notes

Further Reading

Index