{"product_id":"incest-in-contemporary-literature-9781526122162","title":"Incest in Contemporary Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period. The collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and related arts. \u003ci\u003eIncest in contemporary literature\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, Miles Leeson with Emma V. Miller\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Behind closed doors\u003cbr\u003e1.        Text, image, audience: Adaptation and reception of Andrea Newman’s \u003ci\u003eA Bouquet of Barbed Wire\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) – Frances Pheasant-Kelly\u003cbr\u003e2.        Assuming a ‘manly position’: The crisis of masculinity in Ian McEwan’s early fiction – Justine Gieni\u003cbr\u003e3.        ‘Waking in the dark’: Remembering incest in \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eExposure \u003c\/i\u003e(1993) and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Kate \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) – Rebecca White\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Incest and the child protagonist\u003cbr\u003e4.        ‘The word is incest’: Narrative, affect and judgement in and across the \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003es – Matthew Pateman\u003cbr\u003e5.        Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children’s literature – Alice Mills\u003cbr\u003e6.        ‘[B]orn to make a real life, however it cracks your heart’: creative women and daydreaming in Margo Lanagan’s \u003ci\u003eTender Morsels \u003c\/i\u003e(2008)\u003ci\u003e –\u003c\/i\u003e Emma V. Miller\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Incest as a political conceit\u003cbr\u003e7.        The desire for power and the power of desire: The case of Pier Paolo Pasolini – Michael Mack\u003cbr\u003e8.        ‘Our close but prohibited union’: Sibling incest, class and national identity in Iain Banks’s \u003ci\u003eThe Steep Approach to Garbadale \u003c\/i\u003e(2007)\u003ci\u003e – \u003c\/i\u003eRobert Duggan\u003cbr\u003e9.        Is posthuman incest possible? Science fiction and the futures of the body – Alistair Brown\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The rhetoric of narrating incest\u003cbr\u003e10.    ‘Is’t not a kind of incest?’ Metaphor and relation in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – Charles Mundye\u003cbr\u003e11.    ‘[T]he thing that makes us different from other people’: Narrating incest through ‘\u003ci\u003edifférance\u003c\/i\u003e’ in the work of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing – Emma V. Miller and Miles Leeson\u003cbr\u003e12.    Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in Iris Murdoch’s \u003ci\u003eThe Black Prince\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and Simone de Beauvoir’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mandarins \u003c\/i\u003e(1954) – Miles Leeson\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040990232919,"sku":"9781526122162","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526122162.jpg?v=1750948510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/incest-in-contemporary-literature-9781526122162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}