Prof Katy Shaw

As a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his work to date. Approaching Peace in the context of a British social realist tradition, Katy Shaw presents and examines a new chronology of his work, moving from the Ripper and the UK miners' strike to Leeds United and… Show more

As a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his work to date. Approaching Peace in the context of a British social realist tradition, Katy Shaw presents and examines a new chronology of his work, moving from the Ripper and the UK miners' strike to Leeds United and twentieth-century Tokyo. Offering the first analysis of adaptations of Peace's writings for the screen and stage, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author reflecting on two decades of writing, this book is a must-read for students, critics and fans alike.

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As a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his work to date. Approaching Peace in the context of a British social realist tradition, Katy Shaw presents and examines a new chronology of his work, moving from the Ripper and the UK miners' strike to Leeds United and… Show more

As a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his work to date. Approaching Peace in the context of a British social realist tradition, Katy Shaw presents and examines a new chronology of his work, moving from the Ripper and the UK miners' strike to Leeds United and twentieth-century Tokyo. Offering the first analysis of adaptations of Peace's writings for the screen and stage, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author reflecting on two decades of writing, this book is a must-read for students, critics and fans alike.

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First book to provide an introduction to hauntology
Provides an original take on hauntology and demonstrates its utility
Analyses Derrida’s original writings on hauntology as well as discussing criticisms and uses through the analysis of a range of contemporary cultural forms

This collection is the first edited collection concerning twenty-first century genre fiction available to the reading public the world over and fulfills a profound need for accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in this growing field of popular culture and critical study. The text will present new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture, focusing on the function of genre in both reflecting and shaping socio-political and economic developments of… Show more

This collection is the first edited collection concerning twenty-first century genre fiction available to the reading public the world over and fulfills a profound need for accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in this growing field of popular culture and critical study. The text will present new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture, focusing on the function of genre in both reflecting and shaping socio-political and economic developments of the twenty-first century.
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The new genre of fiction dubbed ‘Crunch Lit’ seeks to respond to the challenges posed by the post-millennial global financial crisis. Exploring ways of representing market crashes while also, via the adoption of an overtly prophetic mode, exhibiting a timeliness or ‘newness’ that eclipses more direct responses to the ongoing crises of financial capitalism, these fictions draw on an established tradition of ‘Financial Fiction’ (from Chaucer to Dickens, Conrad, Zola and Trollope) to interrogate… Show more

The new genre of fiction dubbed ‘Crunch Lit’ seeks to respond to the challenges posed by the post-millennial global financial crisis. Exploring ways of representing market crashes while also, via the adoption of an overtly prophetic mode, exhibiting a timeliness or ‘newness’ that eclipses more direct responses to the ongoing crises of financial capitalism, these fictions draw on an established tradition of ‘Financial Fiction’ (from Chaucer to Dickens, Conrad, Zola and Trollope) to interrogate the apparent impossibility of representing a crisis that continues to confound literary and financial critics alike.

Populated by a host of unsympathetic characters and centred around banking institutions, these ‘recession writings’ take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern to produce a new wave of literary endeavour that satirises the origins and effects of modern life, consumer culture and the credit boom. Examining a range of (to date under-studied) texts including Faulks’ A Week in December (2009), Harris’ The Fear Index (2011), Lanchester’s Capital (2011) and Haslett’s Union Atlantic (2010), this volume will interrogate the socio-economics of the post-millennial, from the dissolution of investment banks to the ‘unknown unknowns’ that proliferate across narratives and narrative structures. Challenging the ‘finance without frontiers’ mentality of ‘Financial Fiction’ from the year 2000 onwards, ‘Crunch Lit’ is offered by the text as a way of understanding changes in socio-economic and political control, as well as the continued relevance of fiction in the new millennium.
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This collection begins from the assumption that the boundaries of English Literature as a subject area in schools and universities are necessarily political and arena for constant renegotiation and debate. The academic Literature syllabus has never been a stable phenomenon, but has been constantly subject to to interventions, whether these are explicitly political or not. The essays here identify and debate competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, and celebrate the… Show more

This collection begins from the assumption that the boundaries of English Literature as a subject area in schools and universities are necessarily political and arena for constant renegotiation and debate. The academic Literature syllabus has never been a stable phenomenon, but has been constantly subject to to interventions, whether these are explicitly political or not. The essays here identify and debate competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, and celebrate the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrate the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.
The contributions span a variety of different texts and historical periods, but each of them addresses a moment in which the interface between literature and a political context is particularly apparent. They range across the wide landscape of current undergraduate provision in university English departments and extend into the school curriculum and children's fiction. From the co-option of Shakespeare by the British National Party to the apparent conservatism of the inter-war novel and the poetry that emerged from the UK Miner's Strike, the collection of papers addresses key areas across the curriculum in schools and colleges, in a chronology that ranges from the Renaissance to the contemporary. There are also contributions from academics directly engaged with the configuration of Literature as a subject in secondary schools and universities. The collection as a whole is a intervention into current debates within literary critical theory, and education, and a reflection on the state of 'Literature' as a subject in Cameron's coalition Britain and in Gove's new world of education. Together, the papers testify to the great variety of work on the politics of teaching literature and of literary criticism in the context of the challenges of the twenty-first century. Show less

C21 Literature aims to create a critical, discursive space for the promotion and exploration of 21-st century writings in English. It addresses a range of narratives in contemporary culture, from the novel, poem and play to hypertext, digital gaming and contemporary creative writing. The journal features engaged theoretical pieces alongside new unpublished creative works and investigates the challenges that new media present to traditional categorizations of literary writing.

This innovative study provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to cultural representations of 1984–5 and analyses the ways in which these representations articulate an essential dialogic exchange of issues central to both the coal dispute and the development of literary and cultural studies over the past twenty five years. Focusing closely on the politics of form, the study interrogates the significance of the mode, means and function of strikers’ writings, as well… Show more

This innovative study provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to cultural representations of 1984–5 and analyses the ways in which these representations articulate an essential dialogic exchange of issues central to both the coal dispute and the development of literary and cultural studies over the past twenty five years. Focusing closely on the politics of form, the study interrogates the significance of the mode, means and function of strikers’ writings, as well as alternative representations of the conflict offered by established writers, musicians, artists and film-makers in the wake of the coal dispute.

These representations are worthy of study due to the critical interventions they offer, their evidence of the cultural pressures and forces of not only the strike period, but the post-strike years of industrial and labour change and their remarkable contribution to existing social, political and literary histories. Engaging with these works, many of which have never been subject to previous academic analysis, the study enables twenty-first-century readers to re-conceptualise paradigms of received wisdom concerning 1984–5.

The significance of the competing representations offered by these very different cultural modes as they engage in a wider battle to ‘author’ the conflict is central to this study. Through a detailed analysis of these representations, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of their production and dissemination, this book explores a range of attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate regarding cultural representations of this period in British history. Influenced by critical theory, the text is the first secondary resource concerning cultural representations of the 1984–5 UK miners’ strike available to the reading public the world over. Show less

'Analysing David Peace' provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Peace. Through a detailed analysis of his writings, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of their production and dissemination, the collection explores Peace's attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about his representations. Peace is an emerging author who is widely… Show more

'Analysing David Peace' provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Peace. Through a detailed analysis of his writings, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of their production and dissemination, the collection explores Peace's attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about his representations. Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught and whose novels are increasingly celebrated. In the past decade Peace has won the James Tait Black Memorial Award and was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. The four novels of his 'Red Riding Quartet' examine British society of the 1970s/80s through the prism of the hunt for the serial killer dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper. His novel GB84 examines the machinations of the 1984-5 UK miners' strike, while 'The Damned United' explores the relationships between masculinity and football through the doomed reign of manager Brian Clough at British football club Leeds United in 1974. His most recent novels form the Tokyo Trilogy, in which Peace develops an interest in occupation and the occult, interrogating a post-war Japanese legacy of defeat and its resonance to our own contemporary world. Peace is also the subject to growing media interest. Films of 'The Damned United' and 'Red Riding' have been released to critical acclaim in Europe and the US and Ridley Scott has begun production on a big screen version of 'the Red Riding Quartet' due for international release in 2013. This, coupled with the ongoing publication on the writer's new work, means that David Peace continues to enjoy an exciting role in directing the development of British literature of the twenty-first century. Show less

David Peace: Texts and Contexts, Katy Shaw, David Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught, and whose novels are increasingly translated into commercial film ("The Damned United", March 2009) and television (Channel 4 adaptation of the "Red Riding Quartet", March 2009). Dr Katy Shaw's book provides a challenging but accessible critical introduction to his work through a detailed analysis of his writing, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of its production and dissemination.… Show more

David Peace: Texts and Contexts, Katy Shaw, David Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught, and whose novels are increasingly translated into commercial film ("The Damned United", March 2009) and television (Channel 4 adaptation of the "Red Riding Quartet", March 2009). Dr Katy Shaw's book provides a challenging but accessible critical introduction to his work through a detailed analysis of his writing, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of its production and dissemination. The author explores Peace's attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about Peace's representations. Influenced by critical theory, the text will be the first secondary resource concerning this rising star of contemporary British literature. While UK readers will seek insight into the socio-cultural contexts of England's regions (and in particular his writing on the "Yorkshire Ripper" and the 1985 - 5 miners' strike), Peace also has a following in the US where both "The Damned United" and "Red Riding" are set to receive a national cinema release in 2009/10. This broad international appeal and readership will be explored and discussed, especially in the context of crime fiction and social engagement. This text is the first critical resource concerning this author and will cover the full body of Peace's writings to date, the debates this work has generated, and the often contentious representations offered by his novels to date. Show less