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Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon (Hardcover)
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Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women
writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing
has been formed. With the increasing number of books on
contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom
we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book
which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular,
interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument
unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control
canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing
commercialisation of literature, and the power of the literary
prize. Turner argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by
style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that
have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the
'universal' in literature. Written in a jargon-free style, with
reference to many supporting writers, the book raises a number of
significant cultural questions about the arts, fashions and
literary reputations, of interest to readers in contemporary
literary studies.
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