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Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person (2020)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2020). Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person. Critique, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1832953

This article analyzes Auster’s employment of the second person in his twenty-first-century prose texts – Invisible, Sunset Park, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior – in order to challenge familiar humanistic readings of his work. Using theor... Read More about Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person.

Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age (2015)
Book
Peacock, J. (2015). Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age

Brooklyn Fictions: the Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age takes Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of these issues and for an interrogation of the intrinsic virtues of “community” as an idea.