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Book SynopsisAlasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds offers fresh perspectives on Alasdair Gray's literary and pictorial works, with contributions that span a wide range of theoretical perspectives and levels of analysis among which are literary studies, fine art, word and image studies, architecture and media studies.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Camille Manfredi PART I: MYTH AND CREATION: ALASDAIR GRAY'S TEXTUAL PURGATORIES 1. Literature against Amnesia; Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon 2. 'Part of a part which was once the whole': Mephistopheles and the Author Figure in Lanark and Fleck; Kirsten Stirling 3. Figures of Creation in Alasdair Gray's ?Prometheus'; Hélène Machinal 4. Damnation and Hell. Introduction to Versions of Goethe's Faust, Dante's Inferno; Alasdair Gray PART II: THE ART OF SUBVERSION 5. The 'Settlers and Colonists' Affair; Scott Hames 6. A Subversive View of Scotland in the 'Now plays'; Jean Berton 7. Spiraliform Narratives and the Question of Identity in Alasdair Gray's Lanark and 1982, Janine; Timothée Dubray 8. Having the Last Word: Paratextual Framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's epilogue' to Old Men in Love (2007); Glyn White PART III: VISIONS AND TROMPE L'OEILS 9. Alasdair Gray: The Literary Vision, or, How to Make Things Seen; Alan Riach 10. The Alasdair Gray Foundation: the Importance of a Visual and Literary Archive; Sorcha Dallas 11. Itching Etchings: Fooling the Eye, or an Anatomy of Gray's Optical Illusions and Intermedial Apparatus; Liliane Louvel Conclusion: Nae new ideas, nae worries! Alasdair Gray 2008-2012; Rodge Glass Index
