Katy Shaw: 2 books
by Dr Katy Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "crunch lit". Populated by a host of unsympathetic characters and centred around banking institutions, these 'recession writings' take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern to produce a new wave...
Hauntology
The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to understand how we got to this place and...