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03276aam a2200397 i 4500 001 644383908B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160505s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016010606 020 $a 1571139621 020 $a 9781571139627 035 $a (OCoLC)950003909 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6060.E55 $b Z75 2016 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Mundler, Helen E. $q (Helen Esther), $e author. 245 14 $a The otherworlds of Liz Jensen : $b a critical reading / $c Helen E. Mundler. 246 3 $a Other worlds of Liz Jensen 264 1 $a Rochester, N.Y. : $b Camden House, $c 2016. 300 $a 232 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Studies in English and American literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Notes on abbreviations and gender-neutral language -- Introduction -- Egg dancing: paving the way for otherworlds in time and space -- Ark baby and the return to the nineteenth century -- Island life: the pure "ustopia" of the paper eater -- Liz Jensen's murder mysteries -- From family romance to the detective novel -- New rules, new otherworlds: Jensen's "third wave" -- Ecofiction, rapture fiction -- The uninvited: the most radically "other" world to date -- Conclusion. 520 $a "Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which can consist of an indeterminate space of ontological instability, a zone in which real and unreal converge to destabilize the realist text, as in Egg Dancing (1995) and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004). In other novels the otherworld relies on defamiliarization: thus in War Crimes for the Home (2002) the experience of war is transformed by being seen from a woman's perspective. In still other cases, the otherworld spans the novel's entire topos, as in The Paper Eater (2000), the full-blown utopia at the center of Jensen's oeuvre. Jensen's work approaches contemporary social issues such as religious fundamentalism, ecological disaster, and assisted procreation. Simultaneously, it displays a number of characteristics of erudite fiction, including self-reflexivity, inter- and intratextual reference, parody, pastiche, and burlesque. Notwithstanding the "popular" elements of Jensen's work, Helen E. Mundler's study adopts a rigorously academic approach to it, referencing canonical works but also more innovative texts, particularly by contemporary women writers, as points of comparison" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Jensen, Liz, $d 1959- $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Reality in literature. 650 0 $a Fantastic, The, in literature. 650 0 $a Society in literature. 650 0 $a Surprise in literature. 830 0 $a Studies in English and American literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403015802.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=644383908B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search