The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-28637-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 252 g

In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose.
The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present. From the first performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in the 1960s to lad novels and Chick Lit in the twenty-first century, the authors guide the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past forty years. Providing an in-depth overview of the main genres and extensive treatment of a wide range of writers including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, Benjamin Zephaniah and Nick Hornby, this highly readable handbook also offers notes on language issues, quotations from selected works, a timeline and a guide to other works.
Written by the authors of The Routledge History of Literature in English (second edition, 2001), The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing is essential reading for all readers of contemporary writing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, Ronald

McRae, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Setting the scene 1 Drama and the theatre: old anger, new violence 2 The novel – the 1960s and beyond: old guardians and new guards:; Thatcherism and Blairism; Taboos and taboo words; Mapping past into present; 3 The novel – the 1970s and beyond: old empires and new Englishes; What is standard, who is standard, what is English?; 4 The novel – the 1980s and beyond: old forms and; new genres: City slang; Voices and devolutions; Titles of the times; 5 Poetry – old pasts, new presents; The city and the country. Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies at the University of Nottingham, and has been a Visiting Professor and Lecturer in over forty countries. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely in the fields of English Language and Literary Studies.