Julian Barnes Contemporary Critical Perspectives
by Groes, Sebastian; Childs, PeterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-09-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. Although primarily a novelist and essayist, the 'chameleon of British letters' has also written short stories, television scripts and a screenplay. This critical guide provides a wide range of current critical perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels Flaubert's Parrot and The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters up to Arthur and George. Including contributions by some of the finest critics working in the contemporary field, it reflects the richness and diversity of one of Britain's greatest living writers.
Table of Contents
| Series Editors' Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Julian Barnes: Biographical Information | p. xi |
| Introduction Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainty | p. 1 |
| The Flaneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes's Metroland | p. 11 |
| Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot | p. 24 |
| 'A preference for things Gallic': Julian Barnes and the French Connection | p. 37 |
| 'An Ordinary Piece of Magic': Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes | p. 51 |
| Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over | p. 69 |
| The Story of Julian Barnes's The Porcupine: an Epistolary 1/2 Chapter | p. 81 |
| Julian Barnes's England, England and Englishness | p. 92 |
| Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes | p. 103 |
| 'All Letters Quoted Are Authentic': The Past After Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes's Arthur & George | p. 117 |
| Afterword Seeing and Knowing with the Eyes of Faith | p. 129 |
| References | p. 134 |
| Index | p. 161 |
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