The English Novel in History, 1950-1995Psychology Press, 1996 - 260 pàgines Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century. |
Continguts
CONDITIONS OF ENGLAND | 44 |
OUTSIDE IN | 83 |
HISTORIES | 128 |
ORIGINS AND REVERSIONS | 166 |
ENDINGS AND LIVING ON | 199 |
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The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present Professor Steven Connor,Steven Connor Previsualització limitada - 2008 |
The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present Professor Steven Connor,Steven Connor Previsualització limitada - 2008 |
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Absolute Beginners absolute ending academic Aldiss Anglo-Saxon Attitudes annihilation apocalypse attempt become beginning Bodenland Britain British Buddha of Suburbia Caliban campus novel centre characterised characters coherent complex concern condition of England connection contemporary continuity Drabble dramatised Dulé effect English Eusa experience F. R. Leavis fact female fiction film force Frankenstein Unbound function Gibreel human Hyde identity imagination Ishiguro island Jekyll kind language literary lives London Mary Shelley's mass culture means metaphor Midnight's Children Miss Kenton modernist myth narration narrative nation Nineteen Eighty-Four nineteenth-century novel seems novel-sequence novelistic nuclear organisation origin past period political possibility postwar present produced question reader readership reading representation represented rewriting Riddley Walker Robyn Rushdie Saladin Satanic Verses Second World Second World War sense sequence social Stevens story structure suggested survival Sycorax Talbot Tempest tion transformation truth twentieth century vision Winston Smith writing Xanthe
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 Dominic Head Previsualització limitada - 2002 |