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London Fiction at the Millennium

Claire Allen
London Fiction at the Millennium Book PDF

Author : Claire Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030488864

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This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK

Transrealist Fiction

Damien Broderick
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Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313003165

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Transrealist Fiction by Damien Broderick Pdf

Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies. This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.

Millennium London

Nicoletta Vallorani
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Author : Nicoletta Vallorani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8857513394

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Millennium London by Nicoletta Vallorani Pdf

This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literary studies and comparing works by Iain Sinclair and Will Self. For both, London evokes the endless reservoir of films, novels, images, and cultural materials that finds in this city a fruitful source of inspiration.

The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel

Andrew Rowcroft
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Author : Andrew Rowcroft
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476652177

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The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel by Andrew Rowcroft Pdf

This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. All of them share interests in the politics of the left, the problems of protracted economic crisis, and the potentiality of post-capitalist ideas. Novels by these authors, this book argues, are defined by an imperative to confront current anxieties in left-thought, while, at the same time, evincing a nuanced degree of self-consciousness about the legacy of political radicalisms, the costs they accrue, and where they have led.

At Millennium's End

Kevin Alexander Boon
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Author : Kevin Alexander Boon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791449297

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At Millennium's End by Kevin Alexander Boon Pdf

Collected essays by noted scholars covering the breadth and influence of Kurt Vonnegut's literature.

London Fields

Martin Amis
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Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743978

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME). “Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Contemporary British Fiction

Nick Bentley
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Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309029

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Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley Pdf

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives. Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.

St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers

Jay P. Pederson
St James Guide to Science Fiction Writers Book PDF

Author : Jay P. Pederson
Publisher : Detroit, MI : St. James Press
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1558621792

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St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers by Jay P. Pederson Pdf

Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of prominent science-fiction authors, written by subject experts.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

Brian W. Shaffer
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Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

The Science Fiction Handbook

Nick Hubble,Aris Mousoutzanis
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Author : Nick Hubble,Aris Mousoutzanis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538963

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The Science Fiction Handbook by Nick Hubble,Aris Mousoutzanis Pdf

As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.

J. G. Ballard

Jeannette Baxter
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Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441163622

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J. G. Ballard by Jeannette Baxter Pdf

J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. His award-winning novels are widely studied and read, yet the appeal of Ballard's idiosyncratic, and often controversial, imagination is such that his work also enjoys something of a cult status with the reading public. The hugely successful cinematic adaptations of Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987) and Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) further confirm Ballard's unique place within the literary, cultural and popular imaginations. This guide includes new critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Whilst offering fresh readings of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including history, sexuality, violence, consumer capitalism, and urban space,the contributors also explore Ballard's contribution to major contemporary debates including those surrounding post 9/11 politics, terrorism, neo-imperialism, science, morality and ethics.

Millennium People

J. G. Ballard
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Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059978638

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Millennium People by J. G. Ballard Pdf

When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like a random act of violence to psychologist David Markham, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is a victim. He starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, focusing on a group based in the comfortable estate of Chelsea Marina.

Literature of Nature

Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Literature of Nature Book PDF

Author : Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1579580106

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Literature of Nature by Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature

Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız
Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st Century British Literature Book PDF

Author : Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781036402983

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Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature by Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız Pdf

This book sets out on an intellectual journey, with each chapter acting as a unique compass to lead the reader through the critical perspectives on resistance waiting to be discovered in 21st-century British literature. As such, the book appeals to general readers, including undergraduates, researchers, professionals, and anyone who is interested in cultural studies, literary studies, the humanities, and sociology, particularly resistance and discourse studies.

Approaching the Apocalypse

John M. Court
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Author : John M. Court
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857710451

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Approaching the Apocalypse by John M. Court Pdf

Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, "Approaching the Apocalypse" offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about divinely-inspired disaster have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ and his saints. Inspired principally by the startling texts of the "Book of Revelation", Christianity has a rich and varied tradition of looking forward to the purifying fires of Armageddon. But what do recurring motifs like the Rapture, pestilence, biblical prophecy and the building of the New Jerusalem really add up to? And how have interpretations of these patterns differed from century to century?Charting a steady course between the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like the Montanists, and the febrile outpourings of modern-day millennialists, such as the Branch Davidians and Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. His history comprises an incisive analysis of such movements and figures as the Levellers and Diggers, James Jezreel and his Trumpeters, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, cargo-cults and drug cultures. "Approaching the Apocalypse" shows why prophecies of plague, earthquake and flame continue to resonate so powerfully in the Christian imagination, and beyond.