Robert Duggan
Biographic Data
| ID | 643484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Duggan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Duggan |
| SIGNATURE | DUGGAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chichester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Larissa Sansour and the Palestinian ruins of the future
This article considers how the work of artist Larissa Sansour in A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) represents a compelling series of oblique engagements with Palestine’s historical predicament through both comic and poignant deployment of science fiction’s enduring fascination with historicity and the ruins of the future. In tracing how her films situate their narratives in rel…
The geopolitics of inner space in contemporary British fiction
This article examines the speculative re-organisation of political space presented in two recent works by British writers, Matter by Iain M. Banks and The City and the City by China Miéville, and how they engage in distinct but related ways with the new technological remapping of the West Bank explored in Israeli architect and theorist Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation. The discussion analyses the hollow earth topos …
Ghosts of Gotham: 9/11 Mourning in Patrick McGrath'sGhost Townand Michael Cunningham'sSpecimen Days
This article explores the manner in which Patrick McGrath's Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now and Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days have both responded to 9/11 through similar techniques of literary triptych that place different historical periods of New York, including the present, into complex relations of similarity, repetition and difference. The cumulative effect of the temporal juxtaposition and the centrality of absent figures w…
Big-Time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: The Intrusive Author in Martin Amis’s Money
Big-Time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: The Intrusive Author in Martin Amis’s Money Robert Duggan (bio) Martin Amis’s 1984 novel Money is part of that select albeit growing genre, the novel of authorial intrusion. Works including John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) have helped to create the postmodern set piece where a novel’s author takes to …
Runaways--Illegal Aliens in Their Own Land: Implications for Service
Ghosts of Gotham: 9/11 Mourning in Patrick McGrath'sGhost Townand Michael Cunningham'sSpecimen Days
This article explores the manner in which Patrick McGrath's Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now and Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days have both responded to 9/11 through similar techniques of literary triptych that place different historical periods of New York, including the present, into complex relations of similarity, repetition and difference. The cumulative effect of the temporal juxtaposition and the centrality of absent figures w…
Runaways--Illegal Aliens in Their Own Land: Implications for Service
Big-Time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: The Intrusive Author in Martin Amis’s Money
Big-Time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: The Intrusive Author in Martin Amis’s Money Robert Duggan (bio) Martin Amis’s 1984 novel Money is part of that select albeit growing genre, the novel of authorial intrusion. Works including John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) have helped to create the postmodern set piece where a novel’s author takes to …
Ghosts of Gotham: 9/11 Mourning in Patrick McGrath'sGhost Townand Michael Cunningham'sSpecimen Days
This article explores the manner in which Patrick McGrath's Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now and Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days have both responded to 9/11 through similar techniques of literary triptych that place different historical periods of New York, including the present, into complex relations of similarity, repetition and difference. The cumulative effect of the temporal juxtaposition and the centrality of absent figures w…
The geopolitics of inner space in contemporary British fiction
This article examines the speculative re-organisation of political space presented in two recent works by British writers, Matter by Iain M. Banks and The City and the City by China Miéville, and how they engage in distinct but related ways with the new technological remapping of the West Bank explored in Israeli architect and theorist Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation. The discussion analyses the hollow earth topos …
Larissa Sansour and the Palestinian ruins of the future
This article considers how the work of artist Larissa Sansour in A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) represents a compelling series of oblique engagements with Palestine’s historical predicament through both comic and poignant deployment of science fiction’s enduring fascination with historicity and the ruins of the future. In tracing how her films situate their narratives in rel…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)