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The Good of the Novel (Paperback, Main)
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The Good of the Novel (Paperback, Main)
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There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of
literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative
criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as
novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially
commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIlvanney - on
the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing together some of the
most strenuous and perceptive critics of the present moment and
putting them in contact with some of the finest novels of the past
three decades, it examines what the novel does and what kinds of
truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What is
it about the language used in a novel that creates a world
different from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular
novel emplify this? These questions can be answered by the careful
examination of particular great works by strong evaluative critics.
Robert Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa
Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's
American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in
this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.
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