Reading Graham Swift

(Hardback)

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This collection of essays on Graham Swifts fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swifts oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swifts fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swifts work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

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Over four decades Graham Swift, one of the finest novelists and short-story writers of his generation, has created an acclaimed body of work inhabited by seemingly ordinary people going about their ostensibly unremarkable lives. Quietly unassuming but beautifully wrought and profoundly revelatory, his literary oeuvre invites and rewards critical scrutiny, as this rich and compelling collection of scholarly essays amply demonstrates. The first book in English to be devoted to Swifts work in more than a dozen years, this illuminating volume traces the authors preoccupations and investments across the full range of his literary output, while paying particular attention to the as yet underexplored terrain of his more recent works. Scholars and students of this major writer and of contemporary British literature generally will find it an invaluable resource. -- Stef Craps, Ghent University, Belgium

Author Bio

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz. Marta Goszczyska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz.