The contemporary British novel / edited by James Acheson and Sarah C.E. Ross.

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0748626247
9780748626243
1280501375
9781280501371
9786610501373
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary British novel.DDC classification:

823.91409 22

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PR883 .C56 2005eb

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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.

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Summary: Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists. Focusing largely on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, the essays provide expert and original analysis of the most recent trends in the theory and practice of contemporary British fiction. This book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.

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Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists. Focusing largely on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, the essays provide expert and original analysis of the most recent trends in the theory and practice of contemporary British fiction. This book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.

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