scholarly journals Transformation of Britishness – Graham Swift as a Postcolonial Storyteller

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 319-330
Author(s):  
Bojana Gledić
Keyword(s):  
Graham Swift

The Archetypal Analysis of Tomorrow by Graham Swift

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 01-10
Author(s):  
Afraz Jabeen ◽  
◽  
Umme Habiba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graham Swift ◽  
Archetypal Analysis

‘Time is Over’: Postmodern Times

2018 ◽  
pp. 160-219
Author(s):  
Randall Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Graham Swift ◽  
Malcolm Lowry ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Martin Amis ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Ian Mcewan ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

The Cold War and the nuclear threat made it as difficult, after 1945, to look forward affirmatively as to look back. Enlightenment ideas of a ‘project of modernity’ gave way to postmodern scepticism and stasis, reflected by Samuel Beckett and the nouveau roman, and in other ways in the fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann and the repetitive chronologies of Joyce Cary, Lawrence Durrell and others. After the 1960s, authors such as Muriel Spark confronted the Holocaust and recent history more directly, as in later decades did Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Graham Swift and others. In this fiction, and generally later in the century, concerns with the clock’s constraints were diminished by long familiarity and by several new factors. These included technologies of film, video, globalised media and the internet, along with increased international travel and encounters with less industrialised cultures. Science fiction, too, and imagination of time-travel, was both symptomatic yet partly redemptive of horological stress. There remained, however, numerous (often historical) novels by authors such as Gabriel García Marquéz, Salman Rushdie, Alasdair Gray and Thomas Pynchon – re-examining, in Mason & Dixon, C18th practices of global measurement – still concerned with the stresses clockwork chronology imposed on modern history.

The Novels of Graham Swift

2001 ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Peter Widdowson
Keyword(s):  
Graham Swift

Graham Swift

2013 ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
Vanessa Guignery
Keyword(s):  
Graham Swift

No more drama

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-405
Author(s):  
Sławomir Kankol
Keyword(s):  
Graham Swift

The article is a review of Here We Are, the latest novel by contemporary English novelist Graham Swift, published in the spring of 2020. The text is considered in the context of the author’s earlier work, which the often self-reflexive narrative references at a number of points. The author’s use of understatement and the motif of parenthood also receive the reviewer’s attention.

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