British Fictions Of The Sixties

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1472543440

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British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J.G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.

Author : Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011700

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The 1960s by Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the “swinging decade”: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441117069

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British Fictions of the Sixties by Sebastian Groes Pdf

British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.

Author : Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011694

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The 1960s by Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade†?: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

Author : National Book League (London)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878896942

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British and Commonwealth Novels of the Sixties by National Book League (London) Pdf

Author : Kaye Mitchell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781474436212

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British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s by Kaye Mitchell Pdf

This collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial - and crucially overlooked - period of British literary history.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669669

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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 by Dominic Head Pdf

The most current, wide-ranging, and accessible introduction on the post-war novel in Britain available.

Author : Mitchell Kaye Mitchell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474436229

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British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s by Mitchell Kaye Mitchell Pdf

Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fiction of the 1960s, which is diverse in its aesthetic practices and (sometimes) divided in its politics. It brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial - and crucially overlooked - period of British literary history. Via detailed readings of authors such as Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Alexander Trocchi, Maureen Duffy, Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose and many others, the contributors reveal the diversity of material produced in this period and trace the complex relations of influence and indebtedness between the 60s avant-garde, earlier modernisms and later postmodern writing. The volume shows that the 1960s is an even more vibrant period of literary experiment in Britain than might previously have been supposed - and that the avant-garde fiction produced then rewards our renewed attention to it. Key Features:Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/critical/historical contexts - by experts in the fieldRecuperates a lost decade in British literature and thus fills a vital gap in literary history, between late modernism and early postmodernismResponds to burgeoning critical and popular interest in authors such as Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin, and B.S. Johnson, and to a widespread interest in experimental and innovative writing more generally

Author : John Muckle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1848613059

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Little White Bull by John Muckle Pdf

Little White Bull takes a fresh look at the times before the day before yesterday, not the end times but the new beginnings, and tries to show how British fiction grappled with subjects as thorny and diverse as the impact of mass immigration and a new kind of rootless working-class character uncontained by previous conceptions of him or herself, and apparently ready to go to war over them. This exciting and readable book presents the fifties and sixties as a crucible of new departures, asking what remains and continues from those decades into the cultural present. It takes the form of a series of thematic essays each of which discusses the work of an individual or group of novelists. Writers examined in this book are Paul Ableman, Brian Aldiss, Kingsley Amis, J.G. Ballard, Lynn Reid Banks, John Berger, John Braine, Angela Carter, Nell Dunn, Gillian Freeman, Barry Hines, B.S. Johnson, Doris Lessing, Colin Macinnes, Michael Moorcock, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Bill Naughton, Edna O'Brien, Harold Pinter, Samuel Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Jack Trevor Story, Leslie Thomas, Alexander Trocchi, John Wain, Keith Waterhouse, Raymond Williams and Colin Wilson.

Author : Duncan Petrie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474443906

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Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered by Duncan Petrie Pdf

"Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes."--Publisher description.

Author : James F. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152150

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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction by James F. English Pdf

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.

Author : Felix Fuhg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030689681

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London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 by Felix Fuhg Pdf

This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:952131187

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British Fiction of the Sixties by Sebastian Groes Pdf

Author : Alan Sillitoe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307389640

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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe Pdf

Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching “On Saturday Afternoon” to the rollicking “The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.” Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.

Author : James Gindin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349221714

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British Fiction in the 1930s by James Gindin Pdf

British Fiction in the 1930s studies the literary climate of the British 1930s through a critical treatment of some of its influential and socially representative fiction. The works depict, in various ways, a culture under the stress of seemingly insoluble economic and intensifying international dilemmas, a culture that seems betrayed by the promise of its past and the paralysis of its present. The fiction considers transforming solutions, individual and sexual rebellions as well as the fears and attractions of social and political change.