Graham Swift |
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| Author:
| Widdowson, Peter |
| Series title: | Writers and Their Work Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7463-1104-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.