Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction /
Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a lively discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Drawing on a diverse and original body of work, Suzanne Keen provides a detailed examination of the range of contemporary...
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Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2003, 2001.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contemporary fiction, postimperial conditions : romances of the archive
- Romances of the archive : identifying characteristics : A.S. Byatt and Julian Barnes
- Wellsprings : Edmund Spenser, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Josephine Tey, Umberto Eco
- History or heritage? : Penelope Lively, Barry Unsworth, Peter Ackroyd
- Time magic and the counterfactual imagination : Kingsley Amis, Lindsay Clarke, Lawrence Norfolk, Nigel Williams
- Custody of the truth : P.D. James, Robert Harris, Peter Dickinson, Margaret Drabble
- Envisioning the past : Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones, Robert Goddard, Stevie Davies
- Epilogue : postcolonial rejoinders : Derek Walcott, Keri Hulme, Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee.