{"product_id":"alan-hollinghurst-writing-under-the-influence-9781526134288","title":"Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume addresses critical issues surrounding the work of Britain's most important contemporary novelist. It encompasses provocative and timely subjects ranging from gay visual cultures and representations, to Victorian, modernist and contemporary literature, as well as race and empire, theatre and cinema, eros and economics. The book reveals the fascinating intellectual and affective matter that lies beneath the polished control and dazzling style of Hollinghurst's work. Alongside contributions by distinguished British and American critics, the book includes an unpublished interview with Hollinghurst. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Hollinghurst: Writing under the influence\u003c\/i\u003e uses a creative range of critical approaches to provide the most authoritative and innovative account available of Hollinghurst's works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Alan Hollinghurst is Britain's finest living novelist, and this volume brilliantly demonstrates why. Whether exploring his depictions of contemporary gay culture or teasing out his complex relations with precursors such as Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster and Henry James, the essays assembled here do rich and rewarding justice to the 'line of beauty' that unfolds in Hollinghurst's wonderfully inventive writing.'\u003cbr\u003e Mark Ford, University College London\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A dialogue on influence - Denis Flannery and Michèle Mendelssohn\u003cbr\u003e1. Hollinghurst's poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e2. The touch of reading in Hollinghurst's early prose - Angus Brown\u003cbr\u003e3. Poetry, parody, porn and prose - Michèle Mendelssohn\u003cbr\u003e4. Race, empire and \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e - John McLeod\u003cbr\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger's Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Aspern Papers\u003c\/i\u003e: queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past - Julie Rivkin\u003cbr\u003e6. Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger's Child\u003c\/i\u003e - Joseph Ronan\u003cbr\u003e7. Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in \u003ci\u003eThe Folding Star\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spell\u003c\/i\u003e - Robert L. Caserio\u003cbr\u003e8. Some properties of fiction: value and fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction - Geoff Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e9. Cinema in the library - Alan O'Leary\u003cbr\u003e10. Using Racine in 1990: or, translating theatre in time - Denis Flannery\u003cbr\u003e11. 'Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?': queer debates and contemporary connections - Kaye Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e12. What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography - Hermione Lee interviews Alan Hollinghurst\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040997900631,"sku":"9781526134288","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alan-hollinghurst-writing-under-the-influence-9781526134288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}