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Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature
specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine
the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter
Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes,
A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah,
Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian
McEwan, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift,
Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.
The 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. Key Features:
*Literary critical 'isms' are described in clear, jargon-free
language. *Focuses on British fiction since 1980 giving coverage of
established authors such as Angela Carter and Ian McEwan as well as
little addressed novelists such as James Kelman and Zadie Smith.
*Essays are by leading scholars in contemporary fiction.
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
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: Peter
Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes,
A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah,
Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian
McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift,
Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh, and Jeanette Winterson.
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. The volume is organized into four parts, relating to four
major theoretical approaches to the contemporary British novel:
realism, postcolonialism, feminism, and postmodernism.
The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first
time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish
dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel
Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began
writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued
to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here,
however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who
illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and
Irish drama of our time.
This collection of 15 essays surveys the work of some of the most
major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four
dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter
Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work has
since continued to develop. Most of the dramatists considered,
however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who
illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and
Irish drama of the present.;James Acheson is co-editor of
"Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company" and editor
of "The British and Irish Novel since 1960".
The thirteen essays in this collection, published here for the
first time, survey the work of some of the most major British and
Irish novelists of the past thirty years. Featured in it are
several writers - Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch and William Golding,
amongst others - who established themselves before 1960, and whose
work since then has continued to develop in interesting new ways.
Most of the essays, however, deal with novelists who have made
their appearence since 1960, and who illustrate some of the
distinctive characteristics of British and Irish fiction of the
last three decades.;James Acheson is co-editor of "Beckett's Later
Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company", and has published essays on
Beckett and other modern writers in various edited collections and
journals.
The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most
important British and Irish novelists of today. They not only
consider afresh the work of novelists who established their
reputations before 1960, such as Doris Lessing and William Golding;
they also discuss the work of more recent novelists, among them
Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter and Graham Swift. The contributors
are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and
provide a variety of original perspectives on the novelists
concerned.
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five
parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly
well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian
McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with
reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms realist
postmodernist, historical and postcolonialist fiction are
introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are
discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it
is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different
things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their
novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to
more than one of the terms. Also discusses the works of: Maggie
O'Farrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters,
James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading
scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of
the foremost modernists of the 20th century. The collection also
looks at some of Woolf's own essays, discussing her theory of
fiction and devotion to 'stream of consciousness' writing. Its
thirteen contributors place this discussion of Woolf's artistic
theory and practice within the context of her association with the
Bloomsbury Group and her interest in spirituality, feminism,
homosexuality, pacifism and psychoanalysis.
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range
of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings.
Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and
long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property
and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses
show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The
increasing cooperation that is so highly characteristic of our
species over the long term obviously has replaced neither
competition in the short term nor hierarchical structures that
reduce competition in the mid term. Interactions based on
strategies of cooperation, competition, and hierarchy are all
found, simultaneously, in human social relations.
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: Peter
Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes,
A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah,
Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian
McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift,
Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.
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. The volume is organised into four parts, relating to four
major theoretical approaches to the contemporary British novel:
realism, postcolonialism, feminism and postmodernism.
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