{"product_id":"john-burnside-9781350237445","title":"John Burnside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers.  \u003ci\u003eJohn Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author''s writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as \u003ci\u003eThe Dumb House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Light Trap\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Lie about My Father, Glister \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Black Cat Bone.\u003c\/i\u003e The book examines the major themes of Burnside''s work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the first\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rich and insightful collection. Drawing on a wide variety of Burnside’s texts, and exploring themes ranging from masculinity to spirituality, and animals to ghosts, the contributors offer the most comprehensive account of Burnside’s writing to date. The volume will expand readers’ understanding of the diversity of Burnside’s work, and cements his importance within the contemporary literary canon. * Dr Timothy C. Baker, Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature, University of Aberdeen *\u003cbr\u003eThis first book-length academic survey of John Burnside’s work brings home just how hard it is to think of another living writer whose distinctive style extends so impressively across poetry, memoir, and fiction. Often drawing on currents of thought with which Burnside is in sympathy (particularly the work of Heidegger), the expert contributors identify, analyse, and explore tropes and preoccupations that permeate his oeuvre. Special attention is paid to Burnside’s deep ecological commitment, and to his often disturbing intermingling of haunted lyricism with irrationality, violence, and a frequently frustrated search for healing. * Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry, University of St Andrews, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e provides a long overdue exploration of John Burnside’s works. Though Burnside has received relatively little critical attention to date, he is one of the most important contemporary Scottish writers, with a prolific output spanning across genres. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe essays collected here engage with all the major strands of Burnside’s works, including his interest in the metaphysical, spiritual and supernatural, as well as issues of masculinity, gender and class. The volume’s admirable breadth does justice to the expansiveness of Burnside’s oeuvre, from his poems and novels, to his autobiographical and non-fiction writings. * Astrid Bracke, Lecturer  in British literature, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eForeword: Nicholas Royle\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eContributors \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eChronology of John Burnside’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e     INTRODUCTION       \u003cb\u003eBy Way of an Introduction: John Burnside, Writer\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth)   CHAPTER ONE         \u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside’s Metaphysical World: From \u003ci\u003eThe Dumb House\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eA Summer of Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham)   CHAPTER TWO        \u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside’s Numinous Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Wilm (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany)              CHAPTER THREE       \u003cb\u003e‘A temporary, sometimes fleeting thing’: Home in John Burnside’s Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e Monika Szuba (Gdansk University, Poland)   CHAPTER FOUR         \u003cb\u003eViolent Dwellings and Vulnerable Creatures in \u003ci\u003eBurning Elvis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSomething Like Happy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Campbell (University of Edinburgh)   CHAPTER FIVE        \u003cb\u003e‘This learned set of limits and blames’: Masculinity, Law and Prohibition in the Work of John Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Cain (University of Kent)   CHAPTER SIX           \u003cb\u003eConsequences of Pastoral: The Dialectic of History and Ecology in \u003ci\u003eThe Light Trap\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Bristow (University of Durham)   CHAPTER SEVEN    \u003cb\u003eWalking the Tightrope:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Féli\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ex Guattari’s \u003ci\u003eThree Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e and John Burnside’s \u003ci\u003eGlister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Phil Pass (Independent Scholar)   CHAPTER EIGHT     \u003cb\u003e‘A Kindred Shape’: Hauntings, Spectres and the Poetics of Return in John Burnside’s Verse\u003c\/b\u003e David Borthwick (University of Glasgow)   CHAPTER NINE        ‘\u003cb\u003eIt was suddenly hard winter’: John Burnside’s Crossings\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth)   INTERVIEW  \u003cb\u003e            The Space at the back of the Mind: An Interview with John \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBurnside\u003c\/b\u003e             Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth)                                                                                                                                          \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084837056855,"sku":"9781350237445","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350237445.jpg?v=1762207308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-burnside-9781350237445","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}