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Imagination and the contemporary novel /
"Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre; Brink, J....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre; Brink, J.M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139078757 1139078755 9781139083294 1139083295 9780511902673 0511902670 9781139081023 1139081020 9781107645974 1107645972 1107221609 9781107221604 1139064010 9781139064019 1283112825 9781283112826 9786613112828 6613112828 1139076477 9781139076470 1139070754 9781139070751 |