Rachel Cusk : Contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Roberta Garrett and Liam Harrison.

Cover
Halftitle page
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
'Rachel Cusk Won't Stay Still'
It's All Aftermath
Life and Writing
Violence and Silence
Works Cited
1 Life Style: Rachel Cusk and the Critiqueof Minimalism
After Maximalism
Aspirational Austerity
Minimalist Contraction and the Great Outdoors
Minimalist Depth
Conclusion: Raising the Curtain on Minimalism
Works Cited

2 Mother Courage and Mother Shaming: Rachel Cusk's Contribution to Maternal Feminism
Cusk in Context: Parenting Discourse in the Noughties
The Desperate Housewives of Arlington Park
Conclusion: Cusk as 'Feminist Killjoy'
Works Cited
3 Serial Metaphors: Revising and Rewriting in Rachel Cusk's Life Narratives
Memoirs and Metaphors
Metaphors of the (Narrated) Self
Inside versus Outside
Conclusion: Serial Autofiction and Revision
Works Cited
4 Perceptions of Failure in Rachel Cusk's Saving Agnes and Second Place

'Failure Extraordinaire': Subjectivity and Authorship in Saving Agnes
Second Sex: Failure and the Female Artist in Second Place
Conclusion: The Artist of Failure
Works Cited
5 'Some things are artificial and some are authentic': Rachel Cusk's Depth Perception
Harmonic Exercises: The Bradshaw Variations
Groundworks: The Outline Trilogy
Conclusion
Works Cited
6 Autofictional Experiments and Serial Aesthetics in Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy
Serial Autofiction
Repetition and Variation
Serial Selves and Experiments
Acknowledgements
Works Cited

7 Being Sent to Coventry: Silence, Cruelty and Rachel Cusk's Discrepant Style
'Like coldness the silence advances'
Negative Affects
Cruelty and Self-criticism
Conclusion: Embarrassing Fiction
Works Cited
Afterword: Second Text: Biography, Intertextuality, and Art in Second Place
Works Cited
An Interview with Rachel Cusk
Index