Martin Amis: The Essential GuideIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Martin Amis. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Martin Amis, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Amis's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. |
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allusion Amis's Amis's novel ANALYSE ASSESS attitude Auschwitz autobiography backwards character characterisation Cliché connect Consider context created D. H. Lawrence describe DISCUSSION OR ESSAYS double perspective effect emotional Enola Gay episode fact father feel fiction Focus Friendly's glossary of literary Highway Highway's human body Ian McEwan idea images innocence and experience INTERPRET interview with Amis irony Julian Barnes Keith Kingsley Amis Kingsley's language letter literary terms literature London Fields LOOK BACK Looking over Chapter Martin Amis Maureen Freely mean memoir metaphor moral narrator narrator's Nazi Nicola Six Note novelist palindrome passage phrase poem postmodern QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Rachel Papers reactions reader Reading activities Reading guides reference relate RESEARCH AND COMPARE satire Saul Bellow scene sense Souza story suggest Swift's technique tells theme things Time's Arrow Unverdorben VINTAGE LIVING TEXTS vocabulary voice whole wordplay words writing