British Fiction Today

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8731-5
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

comprehensive guide to British fiction since 1990, combining detailed coverage of twelve key authors with thematic overviews

- Uses up-to-date critical and theoretical perspectives but is written in a clear style to ensure it is accessible to undergraduates
- Offers a user and course friendly approach with informative critical essays, thematic introductions, suggested further reading at the end of each section, a critical glossary and selected bibliography
- The Editors are well known in the field. Rod Mengham is a poet and critic, who has written widely on contemporary fiction and also on several books on language.

British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the latest critical perspectives on current British fiction. It offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a broad range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the new British writing.

Organised around key themes in contemporary writing - Modern Lives, Contemporary Living; Distortions and Dreams; States of Identity and Histories, each section begins with a short introductory essay. Each section includes newly commissioned essays by leading critics on: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt, Jonathan Coe, Jenny Diski, Alan Hollinghurst, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Adam Thorpe, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson.

Introducing key works, writers and major themes including post-colonialism, gender and history, British Fiction Today is the ideal guide to the contemporary literary scene for students and readers.

Zielgruppe

Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tew, Philip

Mengham, Rod

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction; Rod Mengham & Philip Tew
PART I: MODERN LIVES, CONTEMPORARY LIVING Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew
1. The Middle Years of Martin Amis - Joe Brooker
2. Julian Barnes and a Case of English Identity - Dominic Head
3. Genre, Repetition and History in Jonathan Coe - Pam Thurschwell
4. Alan Hollinghurst and Homosexual Identity - Kaye Mitchell
PART II: DISTORTIONS AND DREAMS
Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew
5. Reconsidering the Novels of Peter Ackroyd - Tamas Benyei
6. Jenny Diski's Millenial Imagination - Philip Tew
7. Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005- Chris Ringrose
8. Salman Rushdie: Paradox and Truth - Robert Eaglestone
PART III: STATES OF IDENTITY
Introduction - Rod Mengham and Philip Tew
9. Possessing Toby Litt's Ghost Story - Leigh Wilson
10. Ian McEwan's Ethical Fiction - Lynn Wells
11. Considering Zadie Smith's On Beauty - Fiona Tolan
12. Jeanette Winterson's Lighthouse keeping - Sonya Andermahr
PART IV: HISTORIES
Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew
13. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy - Nick Hubble
14. A.S. Byatt's Woven Realism -Wendy Wheeler
15. Fiction's History: Adam Thorpe - Rod Mengham
16. Sarah Waters and the Victorians - Mark Wormald
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Philip Tew is Professor in English at the University College Northampton, UK. He is founding Director of the London Network for Modern Fiction Studies.