Dr Michael Greaney
Senior Lecturer
County College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YD
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Tel: +44 1524 592232
PhD Supervision Interests
Joseph Conrad
Modern and Contemporary BritishFiction
Current Teaching
English 201: The Theory and Practice of Criticism
Profile
Michael Greaney has studied at the Universities of Oxford, Newcastle and Lancaster. He has taught on The Theory and Practice of Criticism, From Decadence to Modernism, Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory, and Contemporary British Fiction.
His research interests lie in modern/contemporary fiction and theory. His first book, Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2002), received the Joseph Conrad Society of America's Adam Gillon Award for the most significant work in Conrad studies from 2001-4. Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory (Palgrave, 2006) is a study ofthe reception and representation of theoretical ideas in literary fiction since the 1960s. He is currently writing a book on the representation of sleep and sleep-related states in the modern novel.
2012
Conrad, Sleep, and Modernism
Greaney, M. 2012 In: The Conradian. 37, 1, p. 1-19, 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
Sleep and Modern Fiction
Greaney, M. 06/2010 In: Literature Compass. 7, 6, p. 467-476, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2008
The Novelist on Holiday: Martin Amis and the Short Story
Greaney, M. 2008 The Short Story. Cox, A. (ed.). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, p. 130-141 12 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Violence and the Sacred in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva
Greaney, M. 2008 In: Theology and Sexuality. 14, 3, p. 293-304, 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
Suspended Animation: Futures of Technophobia.
Greaney, M. J. 2007 Technicity. Litteraria Pragnesia, 346 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2006
Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory: The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism.
Greaney, M. J. 2006 Palgrave.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2005
Stories of Work in Heart of Darkness.
Greaney, M. J. 2005 Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad's Ideology and Art. Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 81 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2002
Conrad, Language, and Narrative.
Greaney, M. J. 2002 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 194 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2000
Lord Jim and embarrassment.
Greaney, M. 2000 Lord Jim: centennial essays. Simmons, A. H. & Stape, J. H. (eds.). v. 25, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 1-14 14 p. (The Conradian).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
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