Jim Crace Into the Wilderness
This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides a retrospective on his work to date, loca
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J I M C R AC E INTO THE WILDE RNESS
Jim Crace
Katy Shaw • Kate Aughterson Editors
Jim Crace Into the Wilderness
Editors Katy Shaw Humanities Department Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Kate Aughterson School of Humanities University of Brighton Brighton, UK
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Foreword: Into the Wilderness
I was surprised and unnerved some years ago when I first read Nicola Allen’s paper (‘Naked Ambition’, Chap. 7 of this volume). It records and explains how women with shaven or cropped hair are a familiar presence in my novels. I was unnerved because I hadn’t really planned, let alone designed, this recurring pattern myself. I was equally surprised when another academic pointed out how regularly my scanty plots were governed by a repeated walk—between tent and cave in Quarantine, for example, between market and office block in Arcadia, along the coast and back in The Gift of Stones, Signals of Distress, and Being Dead. A third observed how frequently the driving force of my endings has been fire. These were revelations to me, in a way, but indisputably correct. I hadn’t even fully acknowledged, until a Cambridge researcher (this time a Japanese mathematician) pointed it out, that my prose bases nearly all its rhythms and percussions on the iamb. Or that I use the word percussion excessively. I had not been writing in my sleep or even in my cups. No, I had
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