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Author : Katharine Cockin,Jago Morrison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826495013
A comprehensive, accessible and lucid coverage of major issues and key figures in modern and contemporary British literature.
Author : Andrzej Gąsiorek
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0340572159
Realism is often held to be aesthetically outmoded and philosophically untenable. This new study challenges that view. It explores the fiction of a variety of postwar novelists, identifying a wide range of distinctive responses to the modernist legacy.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669669
The most current, wide-ranging, and accessible introduction on the post-war novel in Britain available.
Author : James Gindin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520370159
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Author : Roula Ikonomakis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039107119
The Second World War marked an ethical turn in British fiction. The author of this study demonstrates this by closely examining John Fowles's and Iris Murdoch's works as post-war meta-textual magical-realist novels interested in ethics and the nature of contemporary reality. These ethical novels transcend mere morality to explore the essence of the Good. Through paradigms of human experience, they direct our attention towards the Other and impart moral principles based on acts of Goodness. The author assesses the moral intimations in Fowles's The Magus and Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea in the context of their philosophical writings, mainly The Aristos and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals respectively. She shows that Fowles and Murdoch endeavour to instruct the reader morally through the accessible language of fiction.
Author : Andrew Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350076846
Delving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed – or perhaps malformed – the post-war experimental novel, this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war normalization warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period. Hodgson investigates this space as it is portrayed in experimental modern British and French fiction, considering themes of amnesia, myopia, delusion and dementia. Such themes are constantly referred back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms these books often take – books in boxes; of spare pages to be shuffled at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely scrubbed out in smudged black ink. Covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and legitimizes the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures.
Author : D. Brauner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230501492
In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.
Author : A. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137274854
This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age.
Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350067875
From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers. In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores: · The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners · The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning · Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange · Irony and authenticity in the 1980s – from Amis to Kureishi · Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.
Author : Matthew Whittle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137540140
This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The end of the British Empire was one of the most significant and transformative events in twentieth-century history, marking the beginning of a new world order and having an indelible impact on British culture and society. Literary responses to this moment by those from within Britain offer an enlightening (and often overlooked) exploration of the influence of decolonization on received notions of “race” and class, while also prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues in this sweeping study, these works not only view decolonization within its global context (alongside the aftermath of the Second World War, the rise of America, and mass immigration) but often propose a solution to imperial decline through cultural renewal.
Author : David Owen,Cristina Pividori
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527565036
It is a commonplace belief that history is written by the victorious. However, less recognised but equally common is the idea that the defeated also write history, even if their particular account is rather different. This collection looks at these matters from a novel and distinct perspective. It essentially presents the idea that victors often perceive themselves as defeated, by examining the ways in which the idea of defeat comes to dominate the victors’ own sense of superiority and achievement, thereby undermining the certainties that victory is conventionally thought to create. The contributions here discuss fiction (mostly UK and US) published since the First World War. Through the frameworks of experience, memory and post-memory, they examine this subliminal defeat, basically as seen in conflict itself, in the societies that it affects, and in the individual lives of those who it destroys. The result is an innovative literary account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
Author : Natalie Ferris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198852698
Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades following the Second World War. By offering a chronological overview of the period in Britain, it questions how abstraction came to be discovered, absorbed and reimagined in literature.
Author : James Jack Gindin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0758127421
Author : Owen Dudley Edwards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748628728
What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. This time was unique for British children--parental controls were often relaxed if not absent, and the radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. British literature is placed in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the USA, and vice versa, and also through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban-rural division, ageism, class, race, and gender awareness are explored. In this incredibly broad-ranging book, covering over 100 writers, Owen Dudley Edwards looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war as a whole on what children could read during the war and what they made of it, he reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit.
Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316419038
This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and literary genres that have affected the development of postwar British fiction, showing how writers have given voice to matters of racial, regional and sexual identity. Covering subjects from immigration and ecology to science and globalism, this Companion draws on the latest critical innovations to provide insights into the traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.
