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British fiction today /
This text provides students & readers with an introduction to key authors & novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. It offers comprehensive coverage of a range of contemporary authors, drawing together both established & emerging literary voices ref...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: MODERN LIVES, CONTEMPORARY LIVING
- 1. The Middle Years of Martin Amis / Joe Brooker
- 2. Julian Barnes and a Case of English Identity / Dominic Head
- 3. Genre, Repetition and History in Jonathan Coe / Pam Thurschwell
- 4. Alan Hollinghurst and Homosexual Identity / Kaye Mitchell
- PART II: DISTORTIONS AND DREAMS
- 5. Reconsidering the Novels of Peter Ackroyd / Tamas Benyei
- 6. Jenny Diski's Millennial Imagination [Diski] / Philip Tew
- 7. Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005 [Okr] i- Chris Ringrose
- 8. Salman Rushdie: Paradox and Truth / Robert Eaglestone
- PART III: STATES OF IDENTITY
- Introduction / Rod Mengham and Philip Tew
- 9. Possessing Toby Litt's Ghost Story [Litt] / Leigh Wilson
- 10. Ian McEwan's Ethical Fiction [McEwan] / Lynn Wells
- 11. Considering Zadie Smith's On Beauty [Smith] / Fiona Tolan
- 12. Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping [Winterson] / Sonya Andermahr
- PART IV: HISTORIES
- 13. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy [Barker] / Nick Hubble
- 14. A.S. Byatt's Woven Realism [Byatt] / Wendy Wheeler
- 15. Fiction's History: Adam Thorpe / Rod Mengham
- 16. Sarah Waters and the Victorians / Mark Wormald.