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- catalog abstract ""Understanding Martin Amis is a comprehensive reader's guide to the novels, short stories, and nonfiction written by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. Building on the first edition, published in 1995, James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews, and criticism, as he maps the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape - the sociosexual satire of Money and Yellow Dog, the bold experimentation of Time's Arrow and Night Train, and the provocative blend of autobiography and cultural analysis in Experience and Koba the Dread. Diedrick illustrates how Amis has reshaped the British literary landscape, expanding the stylistic and thematic range of fiction while creating forms adequate to the unsettling experience of postmodernity." "Diedrick also analyzes an increasing cultural conservatism in Amis's work, rooted in Amis's relationship with his father, the novelist Kingsley Amis. During the first two decades of his career, the younger Amis consistently opposed his father's political and aesthetic conservatism. But his opposition has given way in recent years to frequent expressions of political and literary solidarity. Diedrick shows how this filial relationship continues to shape the son's social outlook and his career as a writer."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Martin Amis".
- catalog contributor b13146988.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Understanding Martin Amis is a comprehensive reader's guide to the novels, short stories, and nonfiction written by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. Building on the first edition, published in 1995, James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews, and criticism, as he maps the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape - the sociosexual satire of Money and Yellow Dog, the bold experimentation of Time's Arrow and Night Train, and the provocative blend of autobiography and cultural analysis in Experience and Koba the Dread. Diedrick illustrates how Amis has reshaped the British literary landscape, expanding the stylistic and thematic range of fiction while creating forms adequate to the unsettling experience of postmodernity." "Diedrick also analyzes an increasing cultural conservatism in Amis's work, rooted in Amis's relationship with his father, the novelist Kingsley Amis. During the first two decades of his career, the younger Amis consistently opposed his father's political and aesthetic conservatism. But his opposition has given way in recent years to frequent expressions of political and literary solidarity. Diedrick shows how this filial relationship continues to shape the son's social outlook and his career as a writer."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-313) and index.".
- catalog description "Understanding Martin Amis -- Nasty Things Are Funny: The Rachel Papers; Dead Babies; Success -- Entering the "Martian School" Other People: A Mystery Story -- I Am All You Never Had of Goods and Sex: Money: A Suicide Note -- Apocalypse Now: Einstein's Monsters; London Fields; Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offense -- Amis Agonistes: The Information -- Thiz Zdrange Resizdanze: Night Train; Heavy Water and Other Stories -- Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Experience: A Memoir; Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million -- The Novelist as Critic: The Moronic Inferno; Visiting Mrs. Nabokov; The War against Cliche; Uncollected Essays and Reviews -- The Edifice of Masculinity: Yellow Dog.".
- catalog extent "viii, 330 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1570035164 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding contemporary British literature".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog subject "823/.914 22".
- catalog subject "Amis, Martin Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR6051.M5 Z62 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Understanding Martin Amis -- Nasty Things Are Funny: The Rachel Papers; Dead Babies; Success -- Entering the "Martian School" Other People: A Mystery Story -- I Am All You Never Had of Goods and Sex: Money: A Suicide Note -- Apocalypse Now: Einstein's Monsters; London Fields; Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offense -- Amis Agonistes: The Information -- Thiz Zdrange Resizdanze: Night Train; Heavy Water and Other Stories -- Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Experience: A Memoir; Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million -- The Novelist as Critic: The Moronic Inferno; Visiting Mrs. Nabokov; The War against Cliche; Uncollected Essays and Reviews -- The Edifice of Masculinity: Yellow Dog.".
- catalog title "Martin Amis".
- catalog title "Understanding Martin Amis / James Diedrick.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".