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Nicola Barker: Critical Essays (Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Book 8)

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Nicola Barker's exuberant novels here receive the scholarly attention they deserve in a collection of essays which moves chronologically through her oeuvre. The chapters are broad-ranging, placing Barker's work in its contemporary context and collectively making a convincing case for her importance as one of our most inventive novelists.


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Foreword

Nicola Barker


The Barkeresque Mode: An Introduction

Berthold Schoene


Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic

Ben Masters


'Temporary People': Wide Open as an Island Narrative

Daniel Marc Janes


'You grew up in this shithole, then?': Literary Geographics and the Thames Gateway Series

Len Platt


'The Pair of Opposites Paradox': Ambivalence, Destabilization and Resistance in Five Miles from Outer Hope

Ginette Carpenter


'Woah there a moment. Time out!': Slowing Down in Clear: A Transparent Novel

Beccy Kennedy


Beneath the Thin Veneer of the Modern: Medievalism in Darkmans

Christopher Vardy


Burley Cross Postbox Theft as Comedy

Huw Marsh


'Tuning into My "Awareness Continuum"': Optimized Attention in The Yips

Alice Bennett


Exuberant Narration as Metaphysical Currency in In the Approaches

Berthold Schoene


The Pursuit of Happiness in H(A)PPY, or What a Difference an (A) Makes

Eleanor Byrne


Notes on Contributors


Index

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