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" Father and son : "
Gavin Keulks.
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960139
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b714509
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Keulks, Gavin.
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Father and son : : Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British novel since 1950 /\ Gavin Keulks.
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (viii, 328 pages)
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029919213X
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0299192105
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0299192148
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9780299192105
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9780299192143
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.
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| Contents
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The Amises, tradition, and influence: genealogical dissent -- Brief anecdotal history: the mid-1980s and mid-1990s -- Tradition, influence, and anxiety -- Realism and revaluation -- I: Critical cartography: charting the artistic allegiances -- 1. The Amises on American literature: Nabokov, Bellow, Roth -- Vladimir Nabokov: style as morality -- Saul Bellow: prophetic realism -- Philip Roth: egocentric narration -- 2. The Amises on English literature: Austen, Waugh, Larkin -- Jane Austen: mannered morality -- Evelyn Waugh: decline and fall -- Philip Larkin: the comedy of candor -- II: Influence and intersection: the interplay of individual works -- 3. The Amises on comedy: Lucky Jim and the Rachel papers -- Lucky Jim: cultural and generational conflict -- The Rachel papers: revaluative inversion and critique -- "The two Amises" -- 4. The Amises on satire: ending up and dead babies -- Henry Fielding and Horatian satire -- Mikhail Bakhtin and menippean satire -- Characterization and closure -- 5. The Amises on realism and postmodernism: Stanley and the women and money: a suicide note -- Chauvinism, feminism, and misogyny -- The autobiographical abyss: Jake's thing and Stanley and the women -- Revaluative reminism? Money, misogyny, and doubling -- The Amises, realism, and postmodernism -- Revaluative realism: money and metamimesis -- 6. The Amises on love, death, and children: the letters of Kinsley Amis and experience: a memoir -- Higher autobiography: experience, midlife crisis, and the unconscious -- Personal realignment: hilly redux -- Professional realignment: the old devils -- Personal realignment: experience -- Projecting a future: the Amises, genealogical dissent, and the British novel since 1950 -- Whither and novel? Realism, postmodernism, and beyond -- After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the event horizons of fiction -- Professional realignment? Love, children, and night train.
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Annotation
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Amis, Kingsley-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Amis, Martin-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Amis, Kingsley-- Critique et interprétation.
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Amis, Martin-- Critique et interprétation.
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Amis, Kingsley.
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Amis, Martin.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Fathers and sons-- Great Britain.
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Pères et fils-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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English fiction.
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Fathers and sons.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.91409
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PR6001.M6Z745 2003eb
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| Parallel Title
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Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British novel since 1950
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