Autorentext
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz. Marta Goszczynska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.

Klappentext
The book is the first collection of essays on Graham Swift’s work. As a collaborative effort of scholars from several countries, it looks at his fiction from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.

Zusammenfassung
The book is the first collection of essays on Graham Swift's work. As a collaborative effort of scholars from several countries, it looks at his fiction from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.

Inhalt

Introduction

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz and Marta Goszczynska

Part 1: Beginnings and Continuities

Chapter 1: Trauma and Confliction in The Sweet-Shop Owner and Waterland

Philip Tew

Chapter 2: Reticent Detecting: The Evolution of Swift's (Un)Confessing Narrators

Anastasia Logotheti

Chapter 3: Masculinity as Failure: Male Characters in Learning to Swim and England and Other Stories

Katarzyna Ostalska

Part 2: Progressions and Evolutions

Chapter 4: Nostalgia, Sentiments, and Men in Out of This World

Katarzyna Wieckowska

Chapter 5: The Father Delusion in Ever After

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz

Chapter 6: Filming the Unfilmable: Last Orders on Screen

Adam Sumera

Chapter 7: Re-Joycing Tomorrow: Graham Swift, Artificial Insemination, and the Question of Literary Paternity

Donald Kaczvinsky

Part 3: Recent Developments

Chapter 8: Forget 'Green English Fields': War(s) in Wish You Were Here

Catherine Pesso-Miquel

Chapter 9: Spectres of Silence in Wish You Were Here

Slawomir Konkol

Chapter 10: The England in Englandand Other Stories

David Malcolm

Chapter 11: Lost for Words: Narration, Language and Communication in England and Other Stories

Marta Goszczynska

Chapter 12: 'So How Did You Become a Writer?': Metafictional Concerns in Mothering Sunday

Bozena Kucala