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Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826493200
Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474403740
Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106016415413
Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo.
Author : Caroline Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498708
Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.
Author : James F. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152150
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 : M. Boccardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230240803
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015033149322
Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo.
Author : Gerry Smyth
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015078812602
Movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment describes helpful movies in healing and Awakening to Truth.
Author : James Acheson,Sarah C. E. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062531937
These specially commissioned essays, focusing largely on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, examine the work of more than 20 major British novelists, including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain M. Banks, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.
Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405172851
The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey ofcontemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan,Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with morerecent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy,Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit,lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity andtribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and howpost-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the‘British’ novel Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural andliterary contexts.
Author : Phil O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000763287
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and Sunjeev Sahota, the book shows how they have mapped the shift from deindustrialisation through to stigmatization of individuals and communities who have experienced profound levels of destabilization and unemployment. O'Brien argues that these novels offer ways of understanding fundamental aspects of contemporary capitalism for the working class in modern Britain, including, class struggle, inequality, trauma, social abjection, racism, and stigmatization, exclusively looking at British working-class literature of the twenty-first century.
Author : Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119652649
THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.
Author : Leland Monk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766487
Analyzing works by George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, the author offers a new approach to narrative theory by showing how successive generations of novelists have used ever more powerful concepts of chance even though, he argues, chance is precisely what narrative cannot represent, since when it tries to do so it slips into the fated. He also relates the novelistic treatment of chance to important historical currents in the philosophical and scientific understanding of chance, and provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the representation of chance in any narrative. The author asks three central questions: Why did British novelists become intensely interested in chance in the late nineteenth century? Why and how did they thematize it in their fiction? How did the novelistic treatment of chance contribute to innovations in narrative form?
Author : Christian Gutleben
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004488359
Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.
Author : Sabine Nunius
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cultural pluralism in literature
ISBN : 9783643101594
Has British literature finally surpassed Postmodernism and are we thus currently witnessing the emergence of a new era? Choosing specific forms of engagement with difference as a starting point, the present study traces recent developments in the field of the novel and illustrates in how far these new ways of dealing with difference may be characterised as "non-postmodern". Moreover, the analysis aims to demonstrate the renewed importance of modern(ist) strategies and their employment in contemporary British fiction. Case studies of six novels complement and illuminate these findings.
