Nick Bentley

Contemporary British Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives. Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350309029
• Artikelnr.: 62723170

Autorenporträt

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction: Historical and Theoretical Contexts 1979-2005
Chapter 1 Narrative Forms: Postmodernism and Realism
Martin Amis, London Fields (1989)
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things (1992)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
Chapter 2 Writing Contemporary Ethnicities
Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983)
Courttia Newland, Soceity Within (1999)
Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)
Chapter 3 Gender and Sexuality
Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (1977)
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (1992)
Chapter 4 History, Memory and Writing
Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Chapter 5 Narratives of Cultural Space
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
Iain Sinclair, Downriver (1991)
Julian Barnes, England, England (1998)
Conclusion
Student Resources
Internet Resources
Questions for Discussion
Alternative Primary Texts
Glossary
Guide to Further Reading
Index.

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Introduction.- Studying Form: Realism, Modernism and Postmodernism.- Politics and Contemporary Fiction.- Class.- Black and Asian British Fiction.- Gender and Sexuality.- Contemporary Historical Fiction.- Geographic Space and National Identity.- Literature and Science (Fiction).- Contemporary Trauma Narratives.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.