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Author:   Martyn Colebrook ,  Katharine Cox
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786442256

ISBN 10:   0786442255
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents Introduction (Martyn Colebrook, Katharine Cox and David Haddock) I. Scottish Context The Lessons of Lanark: Iain Banks, Alasdair Gray and the Scottish Political Novel (David Pattie) Lanark and The Bridge: Narrating Scotland as Post-Industrial Space (Martyn Colebrook) II. Geographies “I have never been to Nasqueron”: A Geographer Reads Banks (James Kneale) Landscape and the Imagination: Banks’ Representation of Argyll in The Crow Road (Tim Middleton) Imperfect Doubles: The Recasting of Place, Object and Character in the Dream Narratives of The Bridge (Bethan Jones) III. Genre Textual Crossings: Transgressive Devices in Banks’ Fiction (Katharine Cox) “Still magic in the world”: Banks and the Psychosomatic Supernatural (Kirsty A. Macdonald) Teaching Banks: The Wasp Factory and Frankenstein (Emily Garside and Katharine Cox) IV. Gender, Games and Play Contesting Gender in The Wasp Factory, Whit and The Business (Sarah Falcus) Games Playing Roles in Banks’ Fiction (Will Slocombe) Digital Souls and Virtual Afterlives in the Culture Series (Joseph Norman) “Hippies with mega nukes”: The Culture, Terror and the War Machine in Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games (William Stephenson) Afterword (Katharine Cox) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Martyn Colebrook has published extensively on contemporary literature, including the work of J.G. Ballard, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, H.P. Lovecraft and China Mieville. He lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom. Katharine Cox is a Professor in English at Bournemouth University where she is head of the Department of Humanities and Law.

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