Alasdair Gray
Subtitle: ink for worlds
By: Edited by Camille Manfredi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781137401779
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds offers fresh perspectives on Alasdair Gray's literary and pictorial works, with contributions by established critics including Alan Riach, Kirsten Stirling, Liliane Louvel, Gray's biographer Rodge Glass, Sorcha Dallas (Alasdair Gray Foundation), Scott Hames, and Alasdair Gray himself. From Lanark to his most recent publications and even forthcoming ones, Alasdair Gray's literary and pictorial works display a continuously renewed energy that is approached from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, among which are literary studies, fine art, word and image studies, architecture and media studies.The chapters gathered herein demonstrate how Alasdair Gray's 'imagined objects' have long turned to three-dimensional, perfectly functional (or, when necessary, perfectly dysfunctional) worlds in their own right that can equally shape and disrupt the literary, political and social environment out of which they arose"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Camille Manfredi; title: PART I: MYTH AND CREATION: ALASDAIR GRAY'S TEXTUAL PURGATORIES; title: 1. Literature against Amnesia; Marie-Odile Pittin-He;don; title: 2. 'Part of a part which was once the whole': Mephistopheles and the Author Figure in Lanark and Fleck; Kirsten Stirling; title: 3. Figures of Creation in Alasdair Gray's 'Prometheus'; Hélène Machinal; title: 4. Damnation and Hell. Introduction to Versions of Goethe's Faust, Dante's Inferno; Alasdair Gray; title: PART II: THE ART OF SUBVERSION; title: 5. The 'Settlers and Colonists' Affair; Scott Hames; title: 6. A Subversive View of Scotland in the 'Now plays'; Jean Berton; title: 7. Spiraliform Narratives and the Question of Identity in Alasdair Gray's Lanark and 1982, Janine; Timothe;e Dubray; title: 8. Having the Last Word: Paratextual Framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's epilogue' to Old Men in Love (2007); Glyn White; title: PART III: VISIONS AND TROMPE L'OEILS; title: 9. Alasdair Gray: The Literary Vision, or, How to Make Things Seen; Alan Riach; title: 10. The Alasdair Gray Foundation: the Importance of a Visual and Literary Archive; Sorcha Dallas; title: 11. Itching Etchings: Fooling the Eye, or an Anatomy of Gray's Optical Illusions and Intermedial Apparatus; Liliane Louvel; title: Conclusion: Nae new ideas, nae worries! Alasdair Gray 2008-2012; Rodge Glass; title: Index.