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British Fiction Today
Birkbeck ePrints: an open access repository of the research output of Birkbeck College http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk Brooker, Joseph (2006). The middle years of Martin Amis. In Rod Mengham and Philip Tew eds. British Fiction Today. London/New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., pp.3-14. This is an author-produced version of a paper published in British Fiction Today (ISBN 0826487319). This version has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof corrections, published layout or pagination. All articles available through Birkbeck ePrints are protected by intellectual property law, including copyright law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Citation for this version: Brooker, Joseph (2006). The middle years of Martin Amis. London: Birkbeck ePrints. Available at: http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/archive/00000437 Citation for the publisher’s version: Brooker, Joseph (2006). The middle years of Martin Amis. In Rod Mengham and Philip Tew eds. British Fiction Today. London/New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., pp.3-14. http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk Contact Birkbeck ePrints at [email protected] The Middle Years of Martin Amis Joseph Brooker Martin Amis (b.1949) was a fancied newcomer in the 1970s and a defining voice in the 1980s. He entered the 1990s as a leading player in British fiction; by his early forties, the young talent had grown into a dominant force. Following his debut The Rachel Papers (1973), he subsidised his fictional output through the 1970s with journalistic work, notably as literary editor at the New Statesman. -
Bennett V. Spear and the Past and Future of Standing in Environmental Cases
STANDING ON ITS LAST LEGS: BENNETT V. SPEAR AND THE PAST AND FUTURE OF STANDING IN ENVIRONMENTAL CASES STANDING ON ITS LAST LEGS: BENNETT V. SPEAR AND THE PAST AND FUTURE OF STANDING IN ENVIRONMENTAL CASES SAM KALEN[*] Copyright © 1997 Florida State University Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law No man is an IIand, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[1] BLOCKQUOTE> I. INTRODUCTION The law of "standing" in environmental disputes appears to be resting on its last legs, and well it should be. Arguably, standing's fate has been sealed since its conception in the 1970s.[2] Now, approximately a quarter of a century later, standing is on the verge of collapsing onto its weak intellectual foundation. The standing doctrine is that part of the "law of judicial jurisdiction" that "determines whom a court may hear make arguments about the legality of an official decision."[3] Almost twenty years ago, Joseph Vining viewed standing with "a sense of intellectual crisis."[4] In the years since, that intellectual crisis has grown. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Bennett v. Spear[5] reflects one aspect of how this crisis has become too unwieldy. -
Exhaustion and Regeneration in 9/11 Speculative Fiction: Kris Saknussemm‘S ―Beyond the Flags‖ (2015)1
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, 22 (2018) Seville, Spain, ISSN 1133-309-X, 13-35 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/REN.2018.i22.01 EXHAUSTION AND REGENERATION IN 9/11 SPECULATIVE FICTION: KRIS SAKNUSSEMM‘S ―BEYOND THE FLAGS‖ (2015)1 SONIA BAELO-ALLUÉ Universidad de Zaragoza [email protected] Received 14 July 2018 Accepted 17 December 2018 KEYWORDS: 9/11 fiction; speculative fiction; blank fiction; trauma fiction; Kris Saknussemm; ―Beyond the Flags;‖ Douglas Lain; In the Shadow of the Towers PALABRAS CLAVE: Ficción del 11 de septiembre; ficción especulativa; blank fiction; ficción de trauma; Kris Saknussemm; ―Beyond the Flags;‖ Douglas Lain; In the Shadow of the Towers ABSTRACT Early 9/11 fiction has often been criticised for focusing too much on the victims and on the local aspects of the tragedy ignoring the global and political consequences of the attacks. 9/11 speculative fiction writers have taken longer to engage directly with the tragedy and when doing so they have also often adopted trauma-oriented approaches that could appease but not challenge. In 2015 Douglas Lain edited In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post- 9/11 World, a collection that shows how the idiom of the fantastic can be serious and meaningful and also a means to explore cultural anxieties in the United States. Within Lain‘s collection, this paper pays special attention to Kris Saknussemm‘s ―Beyond the Flags,‖ a story that combines cultural anxieties of our time and helps readers confront their own contradictions by questioning accepted assumptions like the sacred nature of the victims or the expected 1 The research carried out for the writing of this article is part of a project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (code FFI2015-63506). -
Martin Amis Is Tired. Near the End of a 30 City Tour Promoting His New Book, the Memoir Experience, Amis Exudes and Embodies Exhaustion
Interview | Martin Amis http://www.janmag.com/profiles/amis.html Top Agents Seek Authors Master's in Writing Free list of the top agents to help you get Johns Hopkins University MD & DC School published. Get it now. of Arts & Sciences Nights Martin Amis is tired. Near the end of a 30 city tour promoting his new book, the memoir Experience, Amis exudes and embodies exhaustion. A diminutive man with an appearance that is somehow surprisingly frail in a writer of this stature (as though a writer should somehow be as large as his reputation. Were that the case, Amis would be as big and imposing as a country manor). In fact, his appearance is surprising in all ways. There is more to his mien of aging rock musician than worldclass author. 1 of 13 10/3/2006 10:00 AM Interview | Martin Amis http://www.janmag.com/profiles/amis.html The rock star analogy may have been enhanced by the challenges of not only getting this interview, but of getting to keep it. To arrange the interview, numerous telephone calls and emails to the literary capitals in several countries were necessary. To keep it, the January crew arrived for our 4:45 interview to be met with the smallest view of bedlam. The television interview that preceded us had gone way over time, resulting in a phalanx of journalists and photographers lining the hotel corridor outside the special smoking suite where Amis was trapped with the TV people. The TV cameras were still being packed up when Amis was ushered down the hall to a photo shoot and then back to the suite to talk with me. -
The Limits of Irony: the Chronillogical World Of
THELIMITS OF IRONY The Chronillogical World of Martin Arnis' Time's Arrow s a work of Holocaust fiction, Martin Arnis' Time'sArrm is as A, oving and disturbing as it is ingenious; indeed, it is Amis' narrative ingenuity that is responsible for the work's moral and emotional impact. What moves and disturbs the reader is the multitude of ironies that result from the reversal of time- the "narrative conceitn (Diedrick 164) that structures and drives the novel.' In Time'sArrow the normal present-to-future progression becomes the movement from present to past and the normative convention of realistic fiction-the inability to foresee the future- becomes the inability to recall the past. A narrator in Amis' Einstein's Monsters describes the 20th-century as "the age when irony really came into its own" (37) and Time'sAwow is an ironic tour-de-force if ever there was one. The minor and major ironies generated by the time- reversal all follow from the most important effect of the trope- the reversal of all normal cause-effect relations. (The minor become major as the reverse becomes increasinglypmerse.) The irony is structural-formal when the reader recognizes that the novel is an inverted Bihhngsromn- detailing the devolution of the protagonist- and an autobiography told by an amnesiac; but as might be expected, the trope results in an array of more locally comic, and then, grimly dark ironies. Indeed, the work's most disturbing effects are the epistemological and, ultimately, onto- logical uncertainties which are the cumulative impact of the narrative method. -
Post Nuclear Apocalyptic Vision in Martin Amis's Einstein's Monsters
Post Nuclear Apocalyptic Vision in Martin Amis’s Einstein’s Monsters The research paper aims to analyze the study of Martin Amis’s Einstein’s Monsters in order to exhibit the philosophical concept of dystopia or anti-utopia. With the abundant evidences from stories and an essay which are collected in Einstein’s Monsters, the researcher comes to find out that utopia cannot be maintained by Europeans due to several reasons, for instance, proliferation of nuclear nukes, unchecked flourishments of industrialization, sense of egotism, escalation of science and technology and many more. In doing so, the researcher has brought the concept of Krishan Kumar and M. Keith Booker. The theoretical concept of ‘anti-utopia’ is proposed by Krishan Kumar’s Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times. Simultaneously, concept of ‘cacotopia’ is proposed by M. Keith Booker in The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature which does not celebrate the end of the world rather it warns the mankind for their massive destructive activities which create artificial apocalypse. These philosophical concepts can be applied and vividly found in Martin Amis’s Einstein’s Monsters. Basically, this research paper focuses on the five stories namely “Bujak and the Strong Force,” “Insight at Flame Lake,” “The Time Disease,” “The Little Puppy That Could” and “The Immortals” where these stories portray the post nuclear apocalyptic vision which, obviously, demonstrates the philosophical concept of dystopia. It further explores the Bernard Brodie’s concept of nuclear deterrence which discourages in the launching of nuclear wars. The research paper also illustrates the ruin of European world of utopia by showing the destruction created by nuclear nukes. -
Don Delillo and 9/11: a Question of Response
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English English, Department of 5-2010 Don DeLillo and 9/11: A Question of Response Michael Jamieson University of Nebraska at Lincoln Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishdiss Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Jamieson, Michael, "Don DeLillo and 9/11: A Question of Response" (2010). Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English. 28. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishdiss/28 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. DON DELILLO AND 9/11: A QUESTION OF RESPONSE by Michael A. Jamieson A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Major: English Under the Supervision of Professor Marco Abel Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2010 DON DELILLO AND 9/11: A QUESTION OF RESPONSE Michael Jamieson, M.A. University of Nebraska, 2010 Advisor: Marco Abel In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, many artists struggled with how to respond to the horror. In literature, Don DeLillo was one of the first authors to pose a significant, fictionalized investigation of the day. In this thesis, Michael Jamieson argues that DeLillo’s post-9/11 work constitutes a new form of response to the tragedy. -
9/11 Report”), July 2, 2004, Pp
Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page v CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . and in the Intelligence Community 86 v Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page vi 3.5 . and in the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . and in the White House 98 3.7 . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA’S INITIAL ASSAULTS 108 4.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania 108 4.2 Crisis:August 1998 115 4.3 Diplomacy 121 4.4 Covert Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. -
Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones 5-2011 Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009 Juan Martinez University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the American Literature Commons, American Material Culture Commons, and the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Repository Citation Martinez, Juan, "Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009" (2011). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 1459. http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/3476293 This Dissertation is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Dissertation in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. This Dissertation has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NABOKOVILIA: REFERENCES TO VLADIMIR NABOKOV IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1960-2009 by Juan Martinez Bachelor of -
Touring Mallorca, À La Carte
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 26-28, 2010 Amsterdam sinologist Otto Franke (1863-1946) Until June 13 % art through paintings and objects from 44-131-624-6200 “Kienholz: Hoerengracht” displays a his studies in Asia. www.nationalgalleries.org walk-through evocation of Amster- Museum Dahlem- dam’s red-light district by American Museum of Asian Art London Until May 24 artists Edward and Nancy Kienholz. music % 49-30-8301-382 Amsterdam Historisch Museum “Teenage Cancer Trust 2010,” www.smb.museum Until Aug. 29 is being supported by top Brit- % 31-20-5231-822 ish musical acts, including Arctic music www.ahm.nl Monkeys and The Who, “Festtage 2010” is a classical-music festi- which will perform Barcelona val, featuring opera performances of “Eu- “Quadrophenia.” gene Onegin,” “Simon Boccanegra” and March 26, Noel film “Tristan and Isolde” alongside recitals. Gallagher “Frederico Fellini: The Circus of Illusions” Staatsoper Unter den Linden March 27, presents more than 400 images illus- Until April 5 Arctic Monkeys trating the work process, inspirations % 49-30-2035-4438 March 28, JLS and films of the Italian director. www.staatsoper-berlin.org March 29, The Specials CaixaForum Barcelona March 30, The Who Until June 13 Bilbao Royal Albert Hall % 34-93-4768-600 art www.royalalberthall.com obrasocial.lacaixa.es “Anish Kapoor” is a touring exhibition presenting 20 major sculptural works design music by the Turner Prize-winning artist, “Sustainable Future” show- “Woody Allen and His New Orleans from the 1970s to the present. cases prototypes, samples, Sammlung Otto Franke, Privatbesitz Jazz Band” conclude the European Museo Guggenheim Bilbao products and films illustrat- March tour of the jazz ensemble. -
Narrative and Narrated Homicide" : the Vision of Contemporary Civilisation in Martin Amis's Postmodern Detective Fiction
Title: "Narrative and narrated homicide" : the vision of contemporary civilisation in Martin Amis's postmodern detective fiction Author: Joanna Stolarek Citation style: Stolarek Joanna. (2011). "Narrative and narrated homicide" : the vision of contemporary civilisation in Martin Amis's postmodern detective fiction. Praca doktorska. Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski University of Silesia English Philology Department Institute of English Cultures and Literatures Joanna Stolarek „Narrative and Narrated Homicide”: The Vision of Contemporary Civilisation in Martin Amis’s Postmodern Crime Fiction Supervisor : Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Białas Katowice 2011 1 Uniwersytet Śląski Wydział Filologiczny Instytut Kultury i Literatury Brytyjskiej i Ameryka ńskiej Joanna Stolarek „Narratorska i narracyjna zbrodnia: Wizja współczesnej cywilizacji w postmodernistycznych powie ściach detektywistycznych Martina Amisa Promotor : Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Białas Katowice 2011 2 Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1: Various trends and tendencies in 20 th century detective fiction criticism ............................................................................. 24 1.1. Crime fiction as genre and as popular literature ........................................ 24 1.2. A structural approach to detective fiction .................................................. 27 1.3. Traditional and modern aspects of crime literature in hard-boiled detective fiction ........................................................................................... -
Identity: Your Passport to Success
Praise for Identity: Your Passport to Success “I wish someone like him [Stedman Graham] had been around to enlighten me at an age when finding myself and a career change or decision was within easy reach…all I needed, as he formulated, was a ‘process.’” —Janice Jones, Junior Achievement of Chicago “Stedman Graham learned years ago that the secret to a successful life was to not let other people define him, but rather to define himself. As his thought-provoking book shows, finding your true identity is not as easy as it seems. Filled with inspiring real-life stories and life- changing insights, this page-turner of a book will snap you out of your complacency and make you think: Who are you, deep-down? What do you value, seriously? And what do you really want to do with your life? Don’t miss this outstanding book.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level “Get clear on who you are and live according to your own definition of success. Stedman Graham’s Identity offers thought-provoking questions, strategies, and stories to expedite your journey to success. This is a must-read!” —Stuart Johnson, Founder & CEO, VideoPlus and SUCCESS Partners “Stedman Graham is a man who stands tall and speaks from the heart. His insights and advice have provided a road map for success, which I have found invaluable.” —Chas Edelstein, Co-CEO, Apollo Group, Inc. (owner of University of Phoenix) “Identity is an inspirational, honest, and clearly written book about how you can understand and make choices in your life where you matter and fit in a world full of personal challenges.