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Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond This page intentionally left blank Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond Edited by Gavin Keulks palgrave macmillan © Editorial matter, selection and Introduction © Gavin Keulks 2006 All remaining chapters © respective authors 2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-0-230-00830-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28391-0 ISBN 978-0-230-59847-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230598478 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Martin Amis : Postmodernism and beyond / edited by Gavin Keulks. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-28391-0 (cloth) 1. Amis, Martin–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Postmodernism (Literature)–Great Britain. I. Keulks, Gavin. PR6051.M5Z75 2006 823′.914–dc22 2006045216 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 For R.S.B. & E.C.R. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on the Contributors x Introduction 1 Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University (USA) 1 “My Heart Really Goes Out to Me”: The Self-indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers 9 Neil Brooks, University of Western Ontario (Canada) 2 Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis’s Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles 22 Richard Todd, University of Leiden (the Netherlands) 3 The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis’s Money 36 Tamás Bényei, University of Debrecen (Hungary) 4 Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis’s Money 55 Emma Parker, University of Leicester (UK) 5 Martin Amis and Late-twentieth-century Working-class Masculinity: Money andLondon Fields 71 Philip Tew, Brunel University (UK) 6 The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six 87 Susan Brook, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 7 Martin Amis’sTime’s Arrowand the Postmodern Sublime 101 Brian Finney, California State University, Long Beach (USA) 8 Under the Dark Sun of Melancholia: Writing and Loss in The Information 117 Catherine Bernard, University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot (France) 9 Mimesis and Informatics in The Information 137 Richard Menke, University of Georgia (USA) vii viii Contents 10 W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis 158 Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University (USA) 11 J.G. Ballard’s “Inner Space” and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis 180 James Diedrick, Agnes Scott College (USA) 12 A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis’s “Higher Journalism” 197 M. Hunter Hayes, Texas A&M University-Commerce (USA) 13 Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971–2005 211 Bibliography, compiled by James Diedrick and M. Hunter Hayes Index 235 Acknowledgements This collection is the product of more than two years of correspon- dence, thought, and effort. I thank my contributors for their dedica- tion to the project, their generosity of spirit, and their collegial enthusiasm. It has been an honor to work with each of them as this book – and our professional relationships – evolved. I also thank my wife, Preeti, for so patiently enduring the emotional economy of scholarship. ix
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