With the acquisition of Graham Swift’s literary archive by the British Library in 2009, it is now possible for scholars to retrace his creative process in each novel from the earliest drafts to the publisher’s proofs. At first glance, Swift’s tireless rewriting of Ever After seems to serve little purpose, as there are few changes in content. A closer look reveals the importance for the author of finding the right words to fit the story. Through the progression of drafts, Swift pares down the text in order to maintain ambiguity, make the narrative fit the voice of the narrator, and invite the reader to engage with the text. This paper finds that some elements in the creative process are perhaps more painful for Swift than for other writers, ...
Retrospection, first-person narration and a confessional mode are hallmarks of Graham Swift’s fictio...
This artefact is a study of the processes which affect the composition of a novel, both before its ...
In Graham Swift’s fictions, History (more particularly WWII) is often seen through the stories and t...
Grâce à l’acquisition des archives littéraires de Graham Swift par la British Library en 2009, il es...
Graham Swift, a major contemporary British novelist, is concerned in his fiction, one short story co...
In each of his novels Graham Swift provides a kind of prototype for the reader: that of a black, co...
Published in 1992, Ever After is Graham Swift’s fifth novel. It is built around a Victorian metanarr...
In Swift’s fictions, History is invested with a calling. It conceals the emptiness, the nothingness ...
This essay explores the intertextual debt to Hamlet in Graham Swift's Ever After. Employing Jacques ...
The thesis is a study of Jonathan Swift’s library and reading, and a literary-critical examination o...
After a short introduction dedicated to historiographic metafiction, this paper discusses the ways i...
Le présent travail s'attache à envisager le thème de la réconciliation avec le passé à l'ère postmod...
This paper aims at delineating the different devices used by Graham Swift in his first novel, The Sw...
This study investigates the stylistic affinities between Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, in particul...
This essay deals with the difficulty of verbalising emotion in literature. It looks at the treatment...
Retrospection, first-person narration and a confessional mode are hallmarks of Graham Swift’s fictio...
This artefact is a study of the processes which affect the composition of a novel, both before its ...
In Graham Swift’s fictions, History (more particularly WWII) is often seen through the stories and t...
Grâce à l’acquisition des archives littéraires de Graham Swift par la British Library en 2009, il es...
Graham Swift, a major contemporary British novelist, is concerned in his fiction, one short story co...
In each of his novels Graham Swift provides a kind of prototype for the reader: that of a black, co...
Published in 1992, Ever After is Graham Swift’s fifth novel. It is built around a Victorian metanarr...
In Swift’s fictions, History is invested with a calling. It conceals the emptiness, the nothingness ...
This essay explores the intertextual debt to Hamlet in Graham Swift's Ever After. Employing Jacques ...
The thesis is a study of Jonathan Swift’s library and reading, and a literary-critical examination o...
After a short introduction dedicated to historiographic metafiction, this paper discusses the ways i...
Le présent travail s'attache à envisager le thème de la réconciliation avec le passé à l'ère postmod...
This paper aims at delineating the different devices used by Graham Swift in his first novel, The Sw...
This study investigates the stylistic affinities between Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, in particul...
This essay deals with the difficulty of verbalising emotion in literature. It looks at the treatment...
Retrospection, first-person narration and a confessional mode are hallmarks of Graham Swift’s fictio...
This artefact is a study of the processes which affect the composition of a novel, both before its ...
In Graham Swift’s fictions, History (more particularly WWII) is often seen through the stories and t...