Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Modern British Novel
Download The Modern British Novel full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Modern British Novel ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis The Modern British Novel by : Malcolm Bradbury
Download or read book The Modern British Novel written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo.
Book Synopsis The Savage and Modern Self by : Robbie Richardson
Download or read book The Savage and Modern Self written by Robbie Richardson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism, "Britishness," and, ultimately, the "modern self" over the course of the century. Considering the ways in which British writers represented contact between Britons and "Indians," both at home and abroad, the author shows how these sites of contact moved from a self-affirmation of British authority earlier in the century, to a mutual corruption, to a desire to appropriate perceived traits of "Indianess." Looking at texts exclusively produced in Britain, The Savage and Modern Self reveals that "the modern" finds definition through imagined scenes of cultural contact. By the end of the century, Richardson concludes, the hybrid Indian-Brition emerging in literature and visual culture exemplifies a form of modern, British masculinity.
Book Synopsis The Modern British Novel by : Malcolm Bradbury
Download or read book The Modern British Novel written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo.
Book Synopsis Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by : James Acheson
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.
Book Synopsis The Contemporary British Novel by : Philip Tew
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.
Book Synopsis Standard Deviations by : Leland Monk
Download or read book Standard Deviations written by Leland Monk and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing works by George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, the author offers a new approach to narrative theory by showing how successive generations of novelists have used ever more powerful concepts of chance even though, he argues, chance is precisely what narrative cannot represent, since when it tries to do so it slips into the fated. He also relates the novelistic treatment of chance to important historical currents in the philosophical and scientific understanding of chance, and provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the representation of chance in any narrative. The author asks three central questions: Why did British novelists become intensely interested in chance in the late nineteenth century? Why and how did they thematize it in their fiction? How did the novelistic treatment of chance contribute to innovations in narrative form?
Book Synopsis The Modern British Novel by : Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
Download or read book The Modern British Novel written by Malcolm Stanley Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Power, Colonial Texts by : M. Keith Booker
Download or read book Colonial Power, Colonial Texts written by M. Keith Booker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the British novel of India from Kipling's Kim to Farrell's The Singapore Grip
Book Synopsis Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel by : Caroline Edwards
Download or read book Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel written by Caroline Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.
Book Synopsis On Modern British Fiction by : Zachary Leader
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.
Book Synopsis Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel by : L Colletta
Download or read book Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel written by L Colletta and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Richard Wagner and the Modern British Novel by : John Louis DiGaetani
Download or read book Richard Wagner and the Modern British Novel written by John Louis DiGaetani and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the profound influence Richard Wagner had on modern British fiction and such authors and artists as Shaw, Ford Madox Ford, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and Jessie Weston.
Book Synopsis The Modern British Novel of the Left by : M. Keith Booker
Download or read book The Modern British Novel of the Left written by M. Keith Booker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of the spatial metaphor of a left vs. right opposition originated in the tendency of 19th century European legislatures to seat more radical members to the left of the presiding official. For nearly five decades, the left has come to be identified with totalitarianism and with Marxism and Communism, the most successful leftist movements of the 20th century. Many 20th century British novels reflect values antithetical to capitalism, explore the plight of the working class, and challenge the traditional socioeconomic and political views of the right. The British novel of the left represents a long and rich cultural tradition that includes a large number of important works. These novels are best understood as part of a cultural phenomenon that reacts against the mainstream tradition of British literature but also establishes and draws upon traditions of its own. British leftist novels have been produced in a number of modes and subgenres, including realism, modernism, historical novels, detective novels, and science fiction. This reference book provides students and scholars interested in pursuing research into modern British leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place that provides extensive coverage of British leftist and working-class novels of the past century. Through an introductory essay, the volume provides a brief historical survey of the development of this important cultural phenomenon from the Chartist period of the early 19th century to recent working class novels by such contemporary authors as Pat Barker and James Kelman. This survey is followed by an introductory discussion of Marxist literary theory, which is used throughout the book to illuminate individual novels within a theoretical framework consistent with that of most of the novels themselves. The second major part of the book is a guide to selected critical and historical works that presents brief descriptions of a variety of studies useful as background to any study of the British novel of the left. The bulk of the book consists of discussions of more than 130 individual novels of the left in a variety of modes and subgenres. This section includes late 19th century works by authors such as Margaret Harkness and George Bernard Shaw, important early 20th century works such as Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, a wide variety of works from the 1930s, when leftist cultural production was at its peak, and post World War II novels by writers such as Alan Sillitoe and John Berger. The book then ends with a discussion of a number of postcolonial novels of the left that help to illuminate issues relevant to British leftist culture as well.
Book Synopsis Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930 by : Daniel R. Schwarz
Download or read book Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930 written by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Draws on the author’s decades of experience researching and teaching the modern British novel. Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. Features close readings of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and Forster’s A Passage to India. Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernist cultural tradition which includes the visual arts. Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies. Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.
Book Synopsis The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by : Michael McKeon
Download or read book The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 written by Michael McKeon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Book Synopsis Dangerous Intimacies by : Lisa Moore
Download or read book Dangerous Intimacies written by Lisa Moore and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines accounts of sapphic relations in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century texts, both to show how such stories were used to help consolidate more bourgeois values, and to widen our idea of what kinds of relationships existed between women
Book Synopsis Chance and the Modern British Novel by : Julia Jordan
Download or read book Chance and the Modern British Novel written by Julia Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed. Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan argues that this simple novelistic paradox became more pressing during a period in which chance became a cultural, scientific and literary preoccupation - through scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, the influence of existential philosophy, the growth of gambling, and the uncertainty provoked by the Second World War. In tracing the novel's representation of chance during this crucial period, we see both the development of the novel, and draw wider conclusions about the relationship between narrative and the contingent, the arbitrary and the uncertain. While the novel had historically rejected, marginalised or undermined chance, during this period it becomes a creative and welcome co-contributor to the novel's development, as writers such as Samuel Beckett, B.S. Johnson, Henry Green and Iris Murdoch show.
