Father and son : Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British novel since 1950 / Gavin Keulks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keulks, Gavin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Fathers and sons--Great Britain.

Fathers and sons.

Amis, Kingsley--Criticism and interpretation.

Amis, Kingsley.

Amis, Martin--Criticism and interpretation.

Amis, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British novel since 1950

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An innovative study of two of England's most popular, controversial, and influential writers, Father and Son breaks new ground in examining the relationship between Kingsley Amis and his son, Martin Amis. Through intertextual readings of their essays and novels, Gavin Keulks examines how the Amises' work negotiated the boundaries of their personal relationship while claiming territory in the literary debate between mimesis and modernist aesthetics. Theirs was a battle over the nature of reality itself, a twentieth-century realism war conducted by loving family members and rival, antithetical writers. Keulks argues that the Amises' relationship functioned as a source of literary inspiration and that their work illuminates many of the structural and stylistic shifts that have characterized the British novel since 1950.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Amises, Tradition, and Influence: Genealogical Dissent

Brief Anecdotal History: The Mid-1980s and Mid-1990s

Tradition, Influence, and Anxiety

Realism and Revaluation

PART 1. 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

PART 2. 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 Feminism? 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 Kingsley 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

Conclusion: Projecting a Future: The Amises, Genealogical Dissent, and the British Novel since 1950

Whither the Novel? Realism, Postmodernism, and Beyond.

After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the Event Horizons of Fiction

Professional Realignment? Love, Children, and Night Train

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-321) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269387

9781282269385

1282269380

9780299192136

029919213X

OCLC:

229442209