Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970

ISBN-13: 9780230249387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 328 str.

Peter Childs

Opis

Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This expanded second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and now also features a new chapter on the younger "generation" of novelists born in the 1970s.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Novel Today and Yesterday Timeline Martin Amis: Lucre, Love and Literature Pat Barker: In the Shadow of Monstrosities Julian Barnes: 'A Mixture of Genres' Angela Carter: The Demythologizing Business Kazuo Ishiguro: Remain in Dreams Hanif Kureishi: In Black and White Ian McEwan: The Child in Us All Salman Rushdie: A Long Geographical Perspective Zadie Smith: Searching for the Inescapable Graham Smith: Past Present Irvine Welsh: Sex and Drugs and Violence Jeanette Winterson: Boundaries and Desire New Novelists Conclusion Index.

O autorze

PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He is the author of a number of student texts on twentieth-century literature and culture.