M. John Harrison : critical essays /
"This critical collection examines the way in which M. John Harrison has been at the forefront of British speculative fiction, from the New Wave to the New Weird and beyond, excoriating its lumpy prose, refusing its cheap consolations, and reinventing its most debased forms. His depictions of a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Canterbury, UK :
Gylphi Limited,
2019.
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| Series: | Gylphi contemporary writers, critical essays ;
no. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The other side of some inexplicable disaster (M. John Harrison)
- Introduction: Broadly, Harrison (Rhys Williams and Mark Bould)
- A young man's journey to Ladbroke Grove: M. John Harrison and the evolution of the new wave in Britain (Rob Latham)
- 'There have been many Viriconiums': from the Pastel City to London (Paul Kincaid)
- Viriconium ghostwalk (Graham Fraser)
- 'Southend will follow you wherever you go': M. John Harrison and the fiction of everyday life (Milly Weaver)
- On versioning (Ryan Elliott)
- 'Light transforms all things': the superposed mundane-sublime in M. John Harrison and Andrei Tarkovsky (Christina Scholz)
- M. John Harrison and Arthur Machen's 'weird urban magic' (James Machin)
- The misanthropic principle (Vassili Christodoulou)
- 'Sparks in everything' or 'a tearful overnight understanding': posthuman becoming in the empty space trilogy (Timothy Jarvis)
- 'Something that looked partly like a woman partly like a cat': deliquescence, hybridity and the animal in the Empty Space Trilogy (Chris Pak)
- 'The geometry of deterministic chaos': fractal structure and recursivity in the Empty Space Trilogy (Nicholas Prescott)
- Flutter, fracture and froth: event, object and act of metaphor in M. John Harrison (Fred Botting)
- Spread pages (Tim Etchells).