Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Home , Marlon James (novelist), Salman Rushdie

09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Prize Winners - Spring 2016 View Online

Comparative Literature Module CP646/CP647

121 items

8.1 Primary reading (8 items)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit ͡ syn, Thomas P. Whitney, Harry T. Willetts, Edward E. Ericson, 1995 Book | Core (Must Read)

Voices from Chernobyl: the oral history of a nuclear disaster - Svetlana Aleksievich, Keith Gessen, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read)

Missing Person =: (Rue des Boutiques Obscures) - Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort, 2005 Book | Core (Must Read)

The Great Swindle - Pierre Lemaitre, Frank Wynne, 2015 Book | Core (Must Read)

Sleeping on Jupiter - Anuradha Roy, 2015 Book | Core (Must Read)

The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota, 2015 Book | Core (Must Read)

A brief history of seven killings - Marlon James, 2015 Book | Core (Must Read)

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie, 2008 Book | Core (Must Read)

8.2 Recommended secondary reading (112 items)

For General Background: (20 items)

The new literary middlebrow: tastemakers and reading in the twenty-first century - Beth Driscoll, 2014 Book

The Question of Value: A Discussion - Terry Eagleton and Peter Fuller, 1983 Article

1/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art - James F. English, 2002 Article

The economy of prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value - James F. English, 2005 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Fiction and Literary Prizes in Great Britain - Go ̈ rtschacher, Wolfgang, 2006 Book

Der Literaturnobelpreis und seine Leute. Oder: 100 Jahre Narrentreiben - Eckhard Henscheid, 2001 Article

The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality - B. Kovacs, A. J. Sharkey, 2014-03-01 Article

El premio Goncourt, la vaca que no ríe - Jane Kramer, 1989 Article | Refer to module convenor.

All That Glitters: Literature's global economy - The New Yorker - Louis Menand Webpage

“Los premios literarios: Recompensas y espectáculo”, Chapter

Sixth Dialogue: The Power of the Prize Chapter

Rôle et image de l’Académie Goncourt dans l’histoire de la prose au début du XXe siècle: Une ‘Arme à double tranchant’? Chapter

The Use and Effect of Literary Prizes in the Late Twentieth Century - Peter Straus, 2009 Chapter

The Problem of Neglected Literature - Stephen E. Tabachnick, 1981 Article

Consuming Fictions - Todd, Richard, 1996 Book

Prix Goncourt: Faut-il en ‘randomiser’ la sélection? - Geoff Woollen Chapter

The Value of Literary Prizes - NYTimes.com - Richard Greener, 2012-06-07 Webpage

2/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Literary celebrity in Canada - Lorraine M. York, c2007 Book

Whom or What Are Literary Prizes For? - NYTimes.com - Daniel Mendelsohn, 2013-11-19 Webpage

Our mania for awards - and what it says about us | Art and design | The Guardian - Jason Cowley, 2006-10-22 Webpage

The Nobel Prize in Literature (16 items)

Why Don't More Americans Win the Nobel Prize? - The New Yorker Webpage

The Literary Legacy of Alfred Nobel - Ingmar Bjorksten, 1995 Article | Refer to module convenor.

A Nobel Sensibility. - Engdahl, Horace, 2010 Article

The Nobel Prize: History and Canonicity - Richard Jewell, 2000 Article

The Nobel prizes - Aage Jørgensen, 2005 Book

The Literary Politics of the Nobel Prize.: EBSCOhost - Jeffrey Meyers, 2007 Article

What’s Wrong With the Nobel Prize in Literature by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books Webpage

The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Prize in Literature: History and Procedure - William Riggan, 1981 Article

Sartre on the Nobel Prize by Jean-Paul Sartre | The New York Review of Books Webpage

The Nobel Prize Is Overrated: A Century of Bias in the Awarding of Nobel Prizes - Armando Simón, 1, 2005 Article | Refer to module convenor.

The Nobel Syndrome - Michael Specter, 5 October 1998 Journal | Refer to module convenor.

Nobel Laureates in Literature [Special Issue] - C. N. Srinath, 2006 Article

3/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Does it Take a Nobel Prize to Sell a Foreign Book in the U.S.? - The New Yorker - Vauhini Vara Webpage

The Nobel Prize for Literature - Renee Winegarten, 1994 Article

Why Don't More Americans Win the Nobel Prize? - The New Yorker Webpage

Chapter - 1995 Chapter | [Roundtable discussion] . Refer to module convenor.

Individual Texts: (76 items)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (6 items)

Russian Prose in World Literature: Literary Prizes. - Givens, John, 2013 Article

Review: How Banal is Evil? Solzhenitsyn's Contribution to the Sociology of Coercion - Review by:

Paul Hollander, 1980 Article

Review: A War on Two Fronts: Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago - Review by:

Martin Malia, 1977 Article

The Gulag Archipelago: From Inferno to Paradiso - Matual, David Article

The First "Great Leap Forward" Reconsidered: Lessons of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago - Steven Rosefielde, 1980 Article

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture Webpage

Svetlana Alexievich (9 items)

Svetlana Alexievich - Nobel Lecture Webpage

Paris Review - Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich Webpage

Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl, review

4/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Webpage

Everything you need to know about Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel prize in literature | Books | The Guardian Webpage

Svetlana Alexievich: Another controversial Nobel? | TLS Webpage

Svetlana Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities - BBC News Webpage

Review of recent publications - review of Svetlana Alexievich Voices of Chernobyl Article

THE MEMORY KEEPER: The oral histories of Belarus’s new Nobel laureate - Masha Gessen, 2015 Article

Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel - The New Yorker - Philip Gourevitch Webpage

Le Prix Goncourt (2 items)

Rewarding the production of culture: Le Prix Goncourt. - Genova, Pamela A., 2014 Article

Faut-il brûler le prix Goncourt? Chapter

Patrick Modiano (12 items)

Patrick Modiano: A French Jew? - Ora Avni, 1994 Article

PATRICK MODIANO. - Bisson, Julien, 2010 Article

Present pasts: Patrick Modiano's (auto)biographical fictions - Dervila Cooke, 2005 Book

Missing Person. - Hove, Thomas, 2005 Article

A self-conscious art: Patrick Modiano's postmodern fictions - Akane Kawakami, 2000 Book

Detecting texts: the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism - Patricia Merivale, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, c1999 Book

5/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Patrick Modiano's Postwar World - The New Yorker - Alexandra Schwartz Webpage

The Mysteries of Patrick Modiano - The New Yorker - Alexandra Schwartz Webpage

Identity is a Verb: Re-righting the Self in the Novels of Patrick Modiano - Telford, Kevin, 1994 Article

Rewriting the past: memory, history and narration in the novels of Patrick Modiano - William VanderWolk, 1997 Book

Originality and Narrative Nostalgia: Shadows in Modiano's "Rue des Boutiques Obscures" - Warehime, Marja, 1987 Article

The Odyssey and Signs to the Rescue: Escaping the Labyrinth and Enjoying Gaps in Patrick Modiano's Rue des boutiques obscures - nfs.2006-2.002 Webpage

Pierre Lemaitre (3 items)

‘The Great Swindle’, by Pierre Lemaitre - December 4, 2015 4:25 pm Article

The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre; trans Frank Wynne, book review | Reviews | Culture | The Independent Webpage

Review: In The Great Swindle, Pierre Lemaitre Spins a Dark Postwar Tale - The New York Times Webpage

The Man Booker Prize (8 items)

Prizing "Otherness": A Short History of the Booker - Graham Huggan, 1997 Article

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > Essay: Prize Fight Webpage

Book Marketing and the Booker Prize Chapter

The Booker Prize and the legacy of empire - Strongman, Luke, c2002 Book

All must have prizes! How the Goldsmiths and Folio awards are changing the literary

6/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

landscape Webpage

The TLS blog: A prize every time Webpage

The joys of judging the Man Booker prize | Books | The Guardian Webpage

Fiction and literary prizes in Great Britain - Wolfgang Go ̈ rtschacher, Holger Michael Klein, Claire Squires, Culture and the Literary Prize, 2006 Book

Anuradha Roy (3 items)

Sleeping on Jupiter, by Anuradha Roy - book review: Tale of innocence lost is a masterclass in the art of restraint | Reviews | Culture | The Independent Webpage

Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy review - lays bare the treacherous hypocrisies of Indian society | Books | The Guardian Webpage

‘The subject disturbed me’ Review of Sleeping on Jupiter - The Hindu Webpage

Sunjeev Sahota (3 items)

The Year of the Runaways, by Sunjeev Sahota - book review: New country, old problems | Reviews | Culture | The Independent Webpage

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota review - a brilliant political novel about migrant workers in Sheffield | Books | The Guardian Webpage

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota, review: 'topical' Webpage

Marlon James (10 items)

Marlon James discusses his new book A Brief History of Seven Killings. Webpage

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, book review: Jamaica's violent underbelly | Reviews | Culture | The Independent Webpage

7/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Christopher Tayler reviews A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James LRB 5 November 2015 Webpage

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, review: 'vivid and powerful' - Telegraph Webpage

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James review - bloody conflicts in 70s Jamaica | Books | The Guardian Webpage

Marlon James discusses "A Brief History of Seven Killings" - 7/10/2014 Audio-visual document

Marlon James discusses his new book A Brief History of Seven Killings. Webpage

From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself - The New York Times - Marlon James Webpage

Marlon James interview: 'I didn't want to fall into a pornography of violence' - Telegraph Webpage

Marlon James's New Novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings - The New York Times - Larry Rohter Webpage

Salman Rushdie: (20 items)

New Left Review - Tariq Ali: Midnight's Children - Tariq Ali Webpage

Airbrushed History: Photography, Realism, and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - Edward Barnaby, 2005 Article

The Politics of Eng. Lit. in the 1980s and Midnight’s Children: Rushdie, Thatcher, and the Immigration of New Literary-Critical Narratives - Doryjane Birrer, 2007 Article | Refer to module convenor.

Betrayal of Form: The "Teeming" Narrative and the Allegorical Impulse in Rushdie's Midnight's Children - Chun-yen Chen, 2009-08-27 Article

Memory, History, and Identity in the Post-Religious Universe of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - Julian Droogan, 2009 Article

The aesthetic of elephantiasis: Rushdie's Midnight's Children as an encyclopaedic novel - Søren Frank, 2010-5 Article

8/10 09/24/21 Prize Winners - Spring 2016 | University of Kent

Apocalyptic Narratives: The Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - Teresa Heffernan, 2000 Article

The Postcolonial Exotic: Salman Rushdie and the Booker of Bookers - Graham Huggan, 1994 Article

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 186, Salman Rushdie - Jack Livings Webpage

“What Is a Classic?”: International Literary Criticism and the Classic Question - Ankhi Mukherjee, 2010-10 Article

On Pickles, Pictures, and Words: Pick-torial Preservation and Verbal Self-Regeneration in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - Laurence Petit Chapter

Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991 - Rushdie, Salman, 2010 Book

The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987 Chapter

Commonwealth Literature Doesn't Exist Chapter

Salman Rushdie's Magic Realism and the Return of Inescapable Romance - Neil Ten Kortenaar, 2002-7-1 Article

Polyphony of midnight’s children: dispersion of voices and genres in Midnight’s Children - Uma Viswanathan, 2010-01-01 Article