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Post-war British women novelists and the canon /
This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441178886 1441178880 9781441189042 1441189041 9781472542700 1472542703 9781441120946 1441120947 |