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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction

Author : James F. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140515215X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction written by James F. English and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119652642
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature by : Richard Bradford

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118739078
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama by : Nadine Holdsworth

Download or read book A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama written by Nadine Holdsworth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.

Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

Author : L. Driscoll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622488
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature written by L. Driscoll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory. Driscoll critiques the way postmodern theory idealizes contemporary British literature as a space of fluid, flexible decentered subjects, arguing that beneath this ideology are clear evasions of class. Offering critical readings of canonized middle-class authors from Martin Amis to Graham Swift, Driscoll makes the compelling argument that the contemporary British novel, assisted by "class blind? postmodern literary theory consistently works to control the problem of class.

Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748630376
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Bentley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119653061
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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A Concise Companion to Modernism

Author : David Bradshaw
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631220558
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis A Concise Companion to Modernism by : David Bradshaw

Download or read book A Concise Companion to Modernism written by David Bradshaw and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain. Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism. Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres. Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405141409
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000 by : Paul Addison

Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000 written by Paul Addison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate

The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 162356350X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by : Philip Tew

Download or read book The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Philip Tew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises.

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Margaret Drabble and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1945-2010

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110704023X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1945-2010 written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.

The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474262740
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in which it is written, published and read. This major literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

Author : David Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316299007
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature written by David Hillman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.

Community in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350244031
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Community in Contemporary British Fiction written by Sara Upstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda Craig, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe, Bernie McGill, Jan Carson, Guy Gunaratne, Anthony Cartright, Barney Farmer, Maggie Gee and Sarah Hall. Demonstrating some of the resources that literature can offer for a renewed understanding of community, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how British Literature contributes to our understanding of society in both the past and present, and how such understanding can potentially help us to shape the future.

Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Ion Piso
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838527
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction written by Ion Piso and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks back at the picaresque, with its Spanish roots, and especially with its tradition in English literature; then, it comes to contemporary times, and identifies elements of the picaresque in contemporary novels. The main thesis of the author is that the picaresque has never left the literary scene in Britain, being an aesthetic invariant, which expresses a natural inclination of the British authors towards the picaresque story. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre as a consequence of their own literary tradition, which includes particular variants of the picaresque, and as a result of their own situation as immigrant/displaced authors, which gives them material for stories of displaced characters – rogues. The study rigorously identifies the sources of the contemporary protocols of the picaresque, as well as a few variants of picaresque stories in a selection of novels the author accounts for theoretically.

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Author : Christoph Reinfandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110369486
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries written by Christoph Reinfandt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317914813
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction written by Sara Upstone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.