Unsettling Illusions: Essays on Literature and Film

Bruce Woodcock

ISBN 10: 1494710129 / ISBN 13: 9781494710125

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 01/c /05 D, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unsettling Illusions: Essays on Literature and Film
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 01/c /05 D
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1494710129
• ISBN 13: 9781494710125
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A collection of essays on literature and film covering Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs' read through Marx's critique of capitalism, John Fowles's 'A Maggot', Andrea Levy's 'Small Island', Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' in relation to Taoism, Gillian Armstrong's film 'My Brilliant Career', the political writing of Tom Paine, Michael Thelwell's novel 'The Harder They Come', Caribbean fiction including Wilson Harris, Ralph de Boissiere, Zee Edgell, Erna Brodber and Earl Lovelace, and post-colonial London in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sam Selvon and Derek Walcott.

About the Author

Bruce Woodcock worked as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Hull between 1973 and 2013 when he retired. He graduated from Leicester University with First Class Honours in English (1969), and his Ph.D., 'Poetic Fiction: A Study in Representation' (Leicester, 1974), was a comparison of the experimental fictional strategies of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Before arriving in Hull he taught for a year at Lancaster University. He has published three critical books: Male Mythologies: John Fowles and Masculinity (Harvester 1984 - to be republished by Avenues Books, Hull via Create Space/Amazon in 2015), Combative Styles: Romantic Writing and Ideology (University of Hull Press, 1994; with John Coates - to be republished by Avenues Books, Hull via Create Space/Amazon in 2015) and Peter Carey (Manchester University Press, 1996; 2nd edition 2003). He has edited The Selected Poems of William Blake (Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2000) and The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley (Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2002). He has also published two collections of poetry: Hunting Mushrooms: Poems 1978-87, Saying Goodbye in Thailand: Poems 1988-97 (both Avenues Books, Hull, 2013; available via Amazon). He has been in a number of Hull bands including The Hitmen, Red Stripe, Desmond and the Decorators, Hermann and the Wailers, Brave Soul, and The Lounge Lizards. He currently plays keyboard in the jazz combo Spooky. He is working on a new collection of poems as well as collecting together his essays in two volumes, Unsettling Illusions: Essays on Literature and Film and The Poet as Heretic: Essays on Poetry and Poets (both Avenues Books, Hull, 2014/5; available via Amazon). He also writes the website ‘Bruce Woodcock Boxer’, dedicated to his father, the British heavyweight boxing champion. He lives in the Avenues, the Greenwich Village of Hull, with his wife Les Garry, who is a psychotherapist and counsellor.