The Contemporary British Novel.
Title:
The Contemporary British Novel.
Author:
Acheson, James.
ISBN:
9780748626243
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro -- 2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas -- 3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh -- 4 Angela Carter's Magic Realism -- 5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman -- 6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction -- 7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions -- 8 Salman Rushdie's Fathers -- 9 Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith -- 10 Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction -- 11 Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil -- 12 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy -- 13 Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway -- 14 Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain -- 15 Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt -- 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic -- 17 (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes -- 18 Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd -- 19 Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Written by some of the worldâs finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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