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Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Richard Lane
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745628677
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Fiction written by Richard Lane and published by Polity. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture. In a series of lively and accessible essays, key critics introduce a broad range of leading British writers, including Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith. Offering an illuminating analysis and contextualiztion of British fiction today, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary literature.

The Contemporary British Novel

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826493203
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary British Novel written by Philip Tew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.

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.

London in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623560616
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book London in Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Hubble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464263
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.

Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Fiction written by Richard J. Lane and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary British Novel

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626247
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Novel written by James Acheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Peripheral Visions

Author : Ian A. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Peripheral Visions written by Ian A. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Coping with Difference

Author : Sabine Nunius
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643101597
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Coping with Difference written by Sabine Nunius and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474403743
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 written by James Acheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Modern British Fiction

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199249336
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book On Modern British Fiction written by Zachary Leader and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on fiction in Britain, with contributions by contemporary novelists and critics such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter.

Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement

Author : A. Beaumont
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137393726
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement written by A. Beaumont and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space

Author : K. Duff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429356
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space written by K. Duff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike.

The Novel Now

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405172851
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Novel Now written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey ofcontemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan,Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with morerecent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy,Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit,lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity andtribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and howpost-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the‘British’ novel Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural andliterary contexts.

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction

Author : Robert Duggan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112043
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The grotesque in contemporary British fiction written by Robert Duggan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and presents a new way of understanding six authors who have been at the forefront of British literature over the past four decades. Starting with a sophisticated exploration of the historical development of the grotesque in literature, the book outlines the aesthetic trajectories of Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Iain Banks, Will Self and Toby Litt and offers detailed critical readings of key works of modern fiction including The Bloody Chamber (1979), Money (1984), The Child in Time (1987), The Wasp Factory (1984), Great Apes (1997) and Ghost Story (2004). The book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction.

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317447565
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic and political forms of precariousness and dispossession. Informed by trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book addresses such issues by focusing on the literary evocations of vulnerability and analyzing various aspects of vulnerable form as represented and performed in British narratives, from contemporary classics by Peter Ackroyd, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Ian McEwan, and Jeanette Winterson, to less canonical texts by Nina Allan, Jon McGregor, and N. Royle. Chapters on romance, elegy, the ghost story, and the state-of-the-nation novel draw on a variety of theoretical approaches from the fields of trauma studies, affect theory, the ethics of alterity, the ethics of care, and the ethics of vulnerability, among others. Showcasing how the contemporary novel is the privileged site of the expression and performance of vulnerability and vulnerable form, the volume broaches a poetics of vulnerability based on categories such as testimony, loss, unknowing, temporal disarray, and performance. On top of providing a book-length evocation of contemporary fictions of vulnerability and vulnerable form, this volume contributes significantly to considerations of the importance of Trauma Studies to Contemporary Literature.

Contemporary British Novelists

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134604696
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Novelists written by Nick Rennison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.