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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders

Willis, Catherine JaneUniversity of Saskatchewan2008

Graham Swift’s novel Last Orders has yet to be viewed as containing carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the …

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Narrating space : historiographical representations of body and landscape in Waterland by Graham Swift and Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

Wood, Graham PatrickDepartment of English Language and Literature2003

Bibliography: leaves 113-115.

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The use of apocalyptic elements in contemporary British fiction: Graham Swift's “Waterland”, Salman Rushdie's “The Moor's Last Sigh”, and Zadie Smith's “White Teeth”.

Geissler, Shawna JaneFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina2002

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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS

HUMPHREY, DAVID JAMES2006

… Myth, as employed by such writers as Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Peter Ackroyd, Angela Carter and Christine Brooke-Rose. The chapter also discusses the part played by the Booker Prize in the rise in commercial popularity of these writers as well as the acceptance of postmodern writing within a wider …

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“New People”: Memory, Leisure, and Identity at the British Seaside in Last Orders and the Remains of the Day

McLean, Ava H. D.University of Saskatchewan2025

… and Last Orders (1996), Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift tie explorations of memory, interpersonal relationships, and individual identity to journeys to the sea. To articulate how their characters view the seaside not only as a mode of “recuperation and liberation from the stresses of daily …

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