Marginality In The Contemporary British Novel

Author : Nicola Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441147363

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Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel by Nicola Allen Pdf

The 'Marginal' as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This study offers readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society. Nicola Allen analyses three conceptual categories representing the marginal subject in the contemporary British novel: the character of the misfit or outsider; the emergence of the grotesque; and the rediscovery of previously marginalized narratives such as myth and fantasy. This innovative and original monograph focuses on the contention that the contemporary novel of marginality conveys a belief in the socially transformative powers of narrative, and suggests that narrative has played a central role in bringing marginal politics and marginal issues to the fore in contemporary Britain.

Author : Denisa Dumitrascu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527509719

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Power in Politics and Academia in Jonathan Coe's Novels by Denisa Dumitrascu Pdf

This book explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power, its related ideology, and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, Thatcherism and Blairism, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.” Beyond the predictable dichotomy of support-opposition to power, the book argues the modern individual seems to have found another ontological approach, for which it coins the concept of “intentional unpower”. Furthermore, it demonstrates that there are three possibilities regarding the evolution of this type of social response, and invites the readers to discover them, while enjoying Coe’s subtlety and humour. Given its broad approach, the book will appeal to researchers in a wide range of domains, including literary and cultural studies, political theory, and sociology, as well as any reader fascinated with the essence of power, intellectual response, and discourses containing their own elements of subversion.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474403740

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Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Acheson Pdf

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 : Ian A. Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037445791

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Peripheral Visions by Ian A. Bell Pdf

Throughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. By means of its testimony to lived experience, the novel seems to offer the possibility of exploring local communities and marginalized identities in various elaborate ways. However, by its very metropolitanism, and as a result of the material circumstances of publishing and the cosmopolitan nature of the audience, the British novel inevitably conglomerates around London, and its exploration of the remainder of Britain has tended to be patchy and touristy.

Author : Sabine Nunius
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cultural pluralism in literature
ISBN : 9783643101594

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Coping with Difference by Sabine Nunius Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106016131242

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The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew Pdf

Studies of the 'contemporary' British novel often turn out not to be very contemporary at all. All too often the discussion is dominated by the literature of the immediate post-war years. Phil Tew, in contrast, provides a genuinely fresh treatment of the theme by focusing on the work of authors who have made their reputation within the last two decades. In the process he brings so-called minority writers out of theoretical ghettos and, paying their work full respect, integrates them into a synthesis of literary trends and historical context. Designed with the student reader in mind, The Contemporary British Novel will become the first point of reference for a new generation of study. Discusses the work of, amongst others: Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, A. S. Byatt, Jonathan Coe, Angela Carter, Jim Crace, John Fowles, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureshi, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Iain Sinclair, Zadie Smith, Will Self and Jeanette Winterson.

Author : S. Erin Denney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89072023138

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Crossing Borders by S. Erin Denney Pdf

Author : Nick Hubble,Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623560614

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London in Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble,Philip Tew Pdf

Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new approaches to the representation of London required by the unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.

Author : A. Beaumont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137393722

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Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement by A. Beaumont Pdf

By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748626243

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Contemporary British Novel by James Acheson Pdf

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.The book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.Key Features:*Literary critical 'isms' are described in clear, jargon-free language.*Focuses on British fiction since 1980 giving coverage of established authors such as Angela Carter and Ian McEwan as well as little addressed novelists such as James Kelman and Zadie Smith.*Essays are by leading scholars in contemporary fiction.

Author : Andrew Tate
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015073939558

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Contemporary Fiction and Christianity by Andrew Tate Pdf

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630370

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Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley Pdf

This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.

Author : Sarah Dillon
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015073884424

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The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory by Sarah Dillon Pdf

This innovative monograph proposes the concept of the 'palimpsest' as a paradigm for the relationship between theory and traditional literary criticism, which could have a major impact on debate surrounding the role of theory in literary studies.

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Continuum Collections
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847140009

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Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew Pdf

Provides a genuinely fresh treatment of the theme of contemporary British novels.

Author : Degruyter
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230240

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2010 [catalog] by Degruyter Pdf

Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal