Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Most of his work explores the interdisciplinary relations between contemporary philosophy and literature. Previous publications include New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (2019), Supplanting the Postmodern (2015) and Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013).Paweł Wojtas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. His research interests include contemporary English and related literature, as well as literary and cultural disability studies. He is the author of Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (2024).Wojciech Drąg is Associate Professor at the University of Wrocław in Poland. He is the author of Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (2020) and Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (2014).

• 1. The Rise and Rise of Max PorterWojciech Drąg2. Innocence, Experience and Other Childly Songs in Max Porter’s WorksClémentine Beauvais3. “Pitiful narrative creatures”: Grief-Haunted Temporalities in the Work of Max PorterLindsey Drager4. “An English totem”: Constructions of Englishness in LannyJulie Irigaray5. “Peace, my stranger is a tree”: Compassionate Experimentalism in LannyAlex J. Calder6. Narrative Vision and Scopic Injustice in LannyPaweł Wojtas7. “Is this one of your endings?” Lanny and the Humanist Limits of Narrative PossibilityTom Z. Bradstreet8. Lost Futures and Ecophobia in LannyAlice Durocher9. Language as Percussion: The Brutal Style of The Death of Francis BaconJoseph Darlington10. Ut Pictura Poesis: Speaking Paintings in The Death of Francis BaconRobert Kusek and Wojciech Szymański11. Ornithology as Intertextuality: A Guide to Max Porter’s Birds (and Where to Find Them)David Rudrum and James Underwood12. A Colloquy on ShyDavid Rudrum and Paweł Wojtas