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The English Novel in History, 1950-1995

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415072301
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel in History, 1950-1995 written by Steven Connor and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, this book offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century.Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as* George Orwell* William Golding* Angela Carter* Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo* Hanif Kureishi* Marina Warner* Maggie GeeWritten by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

Author : Professor Steven Connor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134908571
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present written by Professor Steven Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.

The English Novel In History 1840-1895

Author : Elizabeth Ermarth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980256
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel In History 1840-1895 written by Elizabeth Ermarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the range of novels alongside other cultural material, including painting, science, religious, political and economic theory. She explores the problems of how a society, as defined in democratic terms, can accommodate political, gender and class differences without resorting to hierarchy; and how narrowly conceived economic agendas compete with social cohesion. Students, advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists will find this text invaluable.

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134656424
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel in History 1700-1780 written by John Richetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.

Hanif Kureishi

Author : Susie Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230210244
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hanif Kureishi written by Susie Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most exciting and controversial British writers who has produced significant work in a range of forms: plays, essays, novels, short stories and film. This guide introduces and sets in context the key debates about his work, and discusses his writing in relation to such issues as gender, postcolonial theory and British identity today. By exploring Kureishi's own statements and a wide range of critical perspectives, the guide provides a comprehensive resource for the study of one of the most important critical figures in contemporary culture.

Hanif Kureishi

Author : Bradley W Buchanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137098279
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Hanif Kureishi written by Bradley W Buchanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most controversial contemporary British writers. This introduction places his fiction in historical context and explores his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, this clear guide offers an overview of the varied critical reception his work has provoked.

Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain

Author : Clare Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415806984
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Book Synopsis Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain by : Clare Hanson

Download or read book Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain written by Clare Hanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement.

Hanif Kureishi

Author : Bart Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526185954
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Hanif Kureishi written by Bart Moore-Gilbert and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers. His work in a range of genres, from drama to film, fiction and short stories, has elicited widespread critical acclaim and - at times - provoked sharp condemnation. Provides a detailed account of his work to date, from Kureishi's early involvement in 'fringe' theatre (an area generally ignored hitherto), to the short story collections. Locates Kureishi's work securely in its historical, social, cultural and critical contexts, as well as providing detailed readings of all the major works. Kureishi is an important writer due to his intervention into such modish topics as British identity, questions of race, aspects of gender and choice of genre.

Analysing Performance

Author : Patrick Campbell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719042508
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Analysing Performance written by Patrick Campbell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

Author : Professor Steven Connor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134908563
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present written by Professor Steven Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.

Pop Culture in Europe

Author : Juliana Tzvetkova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture in Europe written by Juliana Tzvetkova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating survey of popular culture in Europe, from Celtic punk and British TV shows to Spanish fashion and Italian sports. From One Direction and Adele to Penelope Cruz and Alexander Skarsgard, many Europeans are becoming household names in the United States. This ready-reference guide covers international pop culture spanning music, literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion, from the mid-20th century through the present day. The organization of the book—with entries arranged alphabetically within thematic chapters—allows readers to quickly find the topic they are seeking. Additionally, indexing allows for cross-cultural comparisons to be made between pop culture in Europe to that of the United States. An extensive chronology and lengthy introduction provide important contextual information, such as the United States' influence on movies, music, and the Internet; the effect of censorship on Internet and social media use; and the history of pop culture over the years. Topics feature key musicians, songs, books, actors and actresses, movies and television shows, popular websites, top athletes, games, clothing fads and designers, and much more.

Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations

Author : Timothy Gauthier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135492158
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations written by Timothy Gauthier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and explains the obsession with history in the contemporary British novel. It frames these historical novels as expressions of narrative desire, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between a desire to disclose and to rid ourselves of anxieties elicited by the past. Scrutinizing representative novels from Byatt, McEwan and Rushdie, contemporary fiction is revealed as capable of advocating a viable ethical stance and as a form of authentic commentary. Our anxieties often exist in response to what might be perceived as the oppression or eradication of values, whether this is through the modern repudiation of Victorian principles (Byatt), the Western rethinking of Enlightenment narratives in light of the Holocaust (McEwan), or pluralism threatened by religious fundamentalism (Rushdie). Each of these novelists differentially employs postmodern artifice, sometimes as a way to reject the notion of historical construction, sometimes to advocate for it, but always to bring us closer to what the author believes are significant values and truths, rather than relativism. The representative qualities of these novels serve to highlight themes, concerns, and anxieties present in many of the works of each author and by extension those of their contemporaries.

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction

Author : Dominika Oramus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000910210
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book (Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction written by Dominika Oramus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction— nuclear holocaust and climate change alike— allows us to unearth and anatomise contemporary psychodynamics and enables us to identify pretraumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts. These Doomsday Clock Narratives argue that earth’s demise is soon and certain. They are set after some catastrophe and depict people waiting for an even worse catastrophe to come. References to geology are particularly important— in descriptions of the landscape, the emphasis falls on waste and industrial bric- a- brac, which is seen through the eyes of a future, posthuman archaeologist. Their protagonists have the uncanny feeling that the countdown has already started, and they are coping with both traumatic memories and pretraumatic stress. Readings of novels by Walter M. Miller, Nevil Shute, John Christopher, J. G. Ballard, George Turner, Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki, and Yoko Tawada demonstrate that the authors are both indebted to a century- old tradition and inventively looking for new ways of expressing the pretraumatic stress syndrome common in contemporary society. This book is written for an academic audience (postgraduates, researchers, and academics) specialising in British Literature, American Literature, and Science Fiction Studies.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Value and the Humanities

Author : Zoe Hope Bulaitis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030378926
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Value and the Humanities written by Zoe Hope Bulaitis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.

Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000

Author : A. Ferrebe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502318
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000 written by A. Ferrebe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry Young Men to the contemporary confessions of Nick Hornby. The literary period since 1950 is interpreted as one of intense political and stylistic negotiation by male authors with the gendered subject-positions both of fictional characters and those who read about them.

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405156163
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed