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Gavin Keulks is Professor of English at Western Oregon University, specializing in British literary studies with a focus on 20th century fiction and critical theory.
His research examines the evolution of the British novel since 1950, particularly the literary relationship between Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis. Keulks analyzes how their work negotiated the boundaries between personal relationship and literary aesthetics, engaging with the debate between mimesis and modernist approaches to realism.
His seminal work Father & Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel Since 1950 (2003) provides the only extended scholarly treatment of this unique literary genealogy, examining how the Amises' work illuminates structural and stylistic shifts in post-war British fiction.
- Published by The University of Wisconsin Press
- Recognized as important for specialists and students of twentieth-century literature
- Analyzes the transition from modernism to postmodernism in British fiction
Reviewers note Keulks' work is 'holding and absorbing, filled with excellently shrewd and steady analysis of selected novels, essays and interviews set in the context of the status and future of the realistic novel, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the existential condition of post-World War II life.'
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