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Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108483414
Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.
Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108830218
A lively, accessible and authoritative introduction to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the leading novelists of our time.
Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527591592
Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. Through an in-depth critical and contextual analysis of selected contemporary British crime fiction novels from the 1990s to 2018, this distinctive book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender by John Harvey, Stella Duffy, M.Y. Alam, and Dorothy Koomson. It argues that contemporary British crime fiction is a field of contestation where urgent cultural and social questions are debated and the politics of representation explored. A significant resource which will be valuable to researchers and scholars of the crime genre, as well as British literature, this book offers timely critical engagement with intersectionality and decolonisation and their representation in contemporary British crime fiction.
Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769747
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Author : Blanka Grzegorczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351385381
The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children’s writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the relationship between postcolonial and critical race studies, Britain’s colonial legacy, and literary representations of terrorism, tracing thematic and formal similarities in the novels of both established and emerging children’s writers such as Elizabeth Laird, Sumia Sukkar, Alan Gibbons, Muhammad Khan, Bali Rai, Nikesh Shukla, Malorie Blackman, Claire McFall, Miriam Halahmy, and Sita Brahmachari. In doing so, this study maps new connections for scholars, students, and readers of contemporary children’s fiction who are interested in how such writing addresses some of the most pressing issues affecting us today, including survival after terror, migration, and community building.
Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.
Author : Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388596
This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens of such modern critical theories as performativity, post-colonialism, feminism or visual theories. They also demonstrate the rich repertoire of subgenres of neo-Georgian fiction, ranging from biographical fiction, epistolary novels to magical realism. The included studies of the diverse novelistic conventions used to re-contextualise the Georgian reality reflect the way we see its relevance and relation to the present and trace the indebtedness of the new forms of the contemporary novel to the traditional novelistic genres.
Author : Ralph Clare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107195950
A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1102641106
Covering subjects from immigration and environmentalism to science and globalism, The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009184144
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovation, it considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field. Examining various historical forces shaping the creation of innovative genres, the turn to the afterlife of slavery, the pull toward protest, and the impact of new and expanded geographies and methods, this Companion provides an invaluable point of reference for readers seeking rigorous and cutting-edge analyses of contemporary African American literature.
Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009300001
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
Author : Nicholas Birns,Louis Klee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009099509
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.
Author : Ato Quayson,Jini Kim Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009058346
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
Author : John D. Kerkering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841894
This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.
Author : David Rudrum,Paweł Wojtas,Wojciech Drąg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003857488
Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study of his works to date, which encompass Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon (2021) and Shy (2023). It features a broad interdisciplinary array of essays (by poets, novelists, literary critics, art historians and educationalists), which collectively place Porter’s works in their contexts, shed light on his artistic vision and interpret his texts from a range of critical perspectives. The volume’s 12 chapters combine readings of the literary, formal, intertextual and experimental aspects of Porter’s works with discussions of their relation to social, political and ethical questions, whilst placing them in dialogue with highly topical critical and cultural debates, such as Englishness in the aftermath of Brexit, ecocriticism, affectivity and posthumanism.