Figures of Catastrophe keyword-joseph-biden Drawing culture

Drawing culture

Writing just after the Second World War and reflecting on the bureaucracy and myths of National Socialism and the inanity of the dawn of consumerism

now a student at Columbia University

Whether these be the state-of-the-art special effects technologies of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Figures of Catastrophe keyword-joseph-biden Drawing cultureThe leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a line from Hardy and Forster, through Woolf, Waugh and Bowen, to Barstow, Fowles, Rendell, Naipaul, Amis, Kureishi and Smith, he elucidates the recurring topics and narrative logics of the genre,