Martin Amiss Money and Times Arrow

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Martin Amiss Money and Times Arrow

• Presented By Sarah McNutt, Brandon Podaras, and
  India Brown

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Martin Amis

• Born in 1949, brought up in literary household
• Son of Kingsley Amis
• Strongly influenced by Elizabeth Jane Howard
  (Kingsleys second wife)
• Attended 14 different schools
• Spent one year at Princeton, ended up at Exeter
  College, Oxford University

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Writing Style

• Comical without the traditional subject of comedy
• Very perverse sense of humor speaking of the
  nastier things of life.
• Post modernist writing, full of death, rejection,
  and creativity
• Discusses taboo historical events that seem to
  affect most peoples lives.

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Money, A suicide Note (1984)

• Speaks about London and New York, and the
  British-American cultures
• Talks a lot about greed, the rich and poor,
  financial scams, and most of all money in general
• Describes a futureless kind of prosperity

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John Self

• Narrator and protagonist
• Developed an addiction to booze and pornography
• His only god is money
• Kept a journal during the last year of his
  adolescence. (Selina)

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Purpose of Criticism

• The purpose of this criticism is to inform the
  reader of other works that the author has
  written. It gives the background information on
  his other literary works, to help the reader to
  better understand why Times Arrow has the plot in
  which it does.

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Authors Purpose

• The author does a great job of summarizing Money
  and Times Arrow but he does it in a way as to
  impress the reader by his play on words.

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Main Focus

• The author focuses a lot on diction and sentence
  structure. He believes in a variety of imagery in
  the structure of his works.

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• A lot of the authors criticism is built upon his
  own knowledge and assumptions of the work. He
  does incorporate other literary artists point of
  view occasionally.

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Dominant method of persuasion

• The author uses literary examples and quotes to
  persuade his audience.

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Organization

• The argument is organized into sub-units of
  Martin Amiss life works. The author has divided
  his argument into summaries and ties in his
  thesis with examples.

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Main Argument

• We believed there was no particular argument in
  this literary work. Instead of a main argument,
  the author summarized Martin Amis novels
  in-depth.

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Our reactions

• We feel that the author does a good job of
  explaining the steps Martin Amis took in writing
  Money and Times Arrow. His usage of language is
  very vivid and shocking. We believe the author
  wished for this reaction from his readers.