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Graham Swift : la parole chronique. Nouveaux échos de la fiction britannique
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ISBN: 2864805545 Year: 1991 Publisher: Nancy : Presses universitaires de Nancy,

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Journée Graham Swift, le 14 décembre 1991.
Year: 1991 Publisher: Nancy : Université de Nancy, faculté des lettres,

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A Cyclic version of his(s)tory : an analysis of Graham Swift's Waterland
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Year: 1997

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Graham swift's Last orders : A jigsaw puzzle of failed relationships
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Year: 1999

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'A Thousand Avenues' : Graham Swift's Waterland and Ever After
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Making the "public" male : performing masculinities, power and tradition in Graham Swift's "Waterland" and Peter Carey's "the tax inspector"
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Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift : no short-cuts to salvation
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ISBN: 9781845190040 Year: 2005 Publisher: Brighton Portland : Sussex Academic,

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Shows how the novels elaborate an ethics of alterity by means of a detailed study of one of Swift's most persistent and fascinating -- yet all too often ignored -- concerns: the traumatic experience of reality. Swift's texts evoke the cultural pathologies of a nation (post-war Britain) and an era (modernity) through the narratives of individual characters who are struggling to come to terms with a traumatic personal and collective past. By providing a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis of Swift's novels against the background of the 'ethical turn' in literary studies and the emergence of trauma theory, this book extends and enriches our understanding of what is arguably one of the most significant literary oeuvres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.


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The rhetoric of fiction in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Graham Swift's "Waterland" and William H. Gass's "In the heart of the heart of the country" : colloque de Toulouse, 17 et 18 janvier 1992
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Year: 1992 Publisher: Toulouse : Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail,

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ISBN: 9780719068379 9780719068362 0719068371 0719068363 Year: 2005 Publisher: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press,

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This book offers an accessible critical introduction to the work of Graham Swift, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary authors. Through detailed readings of his novels and short stories from The Sweet Shop Owner (1980) to The Light of Day (2003), Daniel Lea dynamically addresses the key themes of history, loss, masculinity and ethical redemption, to present a fresh approach to Swift. This study proposes that one of the side-effects of modernity has been the destruction of traditional pathways of self and collective belief, leading to a loss of understanding between individuals about their duties to each other and to society. Swift's writing returns repeatedly to the question of what we can believe in when all the established markers of identity – family, community, gender, profession, history – have become destabilised? Lea suggests that Swift increasingly moves towards a notion of redemption through a lived ethical practice as the only means of finding solace in a world lacking a central symbolic authority.

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