Graham Swift by Peter Widdowson

Graham Swift by Peter Widdowson

This study offers a close reading of each of Swift's novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between history and story, fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland.

Peter Widdowson is Professor of English the University of Gloucestershire. He has published widely on a range of topics, recent books including: i>Literature (1999); The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and Its Contexts, 1500-2000 (2004); A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 5th edtn. (with Raman Selden and Peter Brooker (2005); Graham Swift (2005). But he is perhaps best known for his writings on Hardy: Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology (1989); (ed.), Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A New Casebook (1993); On Thomas Hardy: Late Essays and Earlier (1998); (ed.) Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose (1996); (ed. with Tim Dolin), Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies (2004), several of which contain essays on Hardy and film

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ISBN 13	9780746310120
ISBN 10	0746310129
Title	Graham Swift
Author	Peter Widdowson
Series	Writers And Their Work
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northcote House Publishers
Year published	2005-12-31
Number of pages	128
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