Poverty in Contemporary Literature

Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-42928-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3011 g

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Korte, B.

Zipp, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Premises and Concepts 3. Lifewriting 4. Popular Genre Fiction 5. Literary Fiction 6. Fiction for Children and Young Adults 7. Non-Fiction 8. Other Media 9. Conclusion Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her books include English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (2000) and she is editor of The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007).

Georg Zipp is an academic researcher at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His study on poverty in Contemporary Caribbean fiction is forthcoming.