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 Graham Swift Information
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 Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, and later Queens' College, Cambridge. Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which...
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 CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Cracked voices: identification and ideology in Graham Swift's Waterland.
09/22/2003: 4,312 words, approx. 14 pages Throughout the opening chapters of Graham Swift's Waterland, the narrative voice announces a split allegiance to its many venerated humanist interests. Indeed, the narrative is, in the Bakhtinian sense, pervasively double voiced. History is declared to be a scientific discipline as well as a... summary from source:
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Historia and guilt: Graham Swift's Waterland.(Critical Essay)
09/22/2005: 5,721 words, approx. 19 pages In the first epigraph to Waterland, Graham Swifi provides varying definitions of the Latin word historia: "1. inquiry, investigation, learning. 2. (a) a narrative of past events, history. (b) any kind of narrative: account, tale, story" (v). That historia can mean either history of... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Lugubrious and Repetitive
7/18/2005: 291 words, approx. 1 pagesReviewing Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men in today's New York Times, reviewer Michiko Kakutani laments that the novel's "lugubrious passages...gain ascendency as the book progresses." And Kakutani knows from ascendant lugubriousness. Six days earlier, the Pulitzer-winning critic labeled John Irving's latest work, Until...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Del Ivan Janik
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In the following essay, Janik, an American educator and critic, discusses the relationship between history and the present in Swift's first three novels.
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Critical Review by Hilary Mantel
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Mantel is an English novelist and critic. In the following review, she examines characterization and voice in Ever After as well as the novel's relation to Swift's earlier works.
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Michael Levenson
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In the following review of Ever After, Levenson discusses the novel's focus on academia, its nationalistic outlook, and its thematic relation to Swift's other novels.
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