This excellent book is an important contribution to our understanding of Cline’s writing from a psychoanalytic perspective... The work of Deleuze and Guattari provides a compelling framework for the analysis of Cline’s writing, in that it enables the psychological, the socio-economic, and, above all, the stylistic, to be fully integrated into one reading. Dr. Hainge, with meticulous care and highly intelligent insight, takes us closer than we have ever been before to the psychological center of Cline’s work. (From the Foreword by Nicholas Hewitt, University of Nottingham, Author of ‘The Life of Cline’)
In this illuminating study, Dr. Hainge demonstrates that Cline’s post-war novels are not to be explained in terms of pathological obsessions redeemed by the brilliance of the author’s stylistic innovations. With the aid of an approach derived from the anti-interpretative practice of Deleuze and Guattari, he makes a compelling case for seeing the later Cline as the lucid author of a ‘schizophrenic’ text, concerned to monitor the success or failure of his own creative strategies. This is a major contribution to our understanding of a difficult, and frequently misunderstood, writer. (Michael Tilby, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge)