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| Author | : Rudolf Freiburg |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9783825843953 |
This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held during a period of four years. The book allows an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not only by recent ideas of postmodernism but also by the manifold issues of nationality, culture, and gender subjected to permanent redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. The interviews with Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tim Parks, Terry Pratchett, Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe cover topics such as the relationship between writer and public, the role of the literary tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality, changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and literary critics.
| Author | : Vanessa Guignery |
| Publisher | : Editions Publibook |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns in literature |
| ISBN | : 2748343425 |
| Author | : Brian W. Shaffer |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 608 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1405156163 |
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed
| Author | : M. Greaney |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2006-08-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 023020807X |
This topical study examines the 'novelizations' of radical literary theory in the work of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Richard Powers and many other leading novelists. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'post-theoretical novel', and traces an alternative history of the 'theory revolution' in recent literary fiction.
| Author | : Julian Barnes |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781604732030 |
Talks with the British author of Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George
| Author | : K. Hadjiafxendi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2007-03-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230206123 |
Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture.
| Author | : Claudia Franken |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783825847616 |
| Author | : James Acheson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137319364 |
This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.
| Author | : Vanessa Guignery |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2006-01-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350309117 |
Julian Barnes's work has been marked by great variety, ranging not only from conventional fiction to postmodernist experimentation in such well-known novels as Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and A History of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters (1989), but also from witty essays to deeply touching short stories. The responses of readers and critics have likewise varied, from enthusiasm to scepticism, as the substantial volume of critical analysis demonstrates. This Readers' Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations, Vanessa Guignery provides the most wide-ranging examination of his fiction and non-fiction so far, considering key issues such as his use of language, his treatment of history, obsession, love, and the relationship between fact and fiction. Covering all of the novels to date, from Metroland (1981) to Arthur and George (2005), this is an invaluable introduction to the work of one of Britain's most exciting and popular contemporary writers.
| Author | : Philip Tew |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2014-02-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 162356350X |
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises.
