Judge for Yourself: Reading Hyper-Contemporary Literature and Book Prize Shortlists

ISBN-13: 9780367371999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str.

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Opis

Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary literature, and puts judging firmly in the hands of the reader, and not the academic or professional reviewers.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Judgement of Dr J. Evans Pritchard, PhD; or, in praise of bad literature  1. Feminism; or, emasculating the canon  2. Postcolonialism and critical race theory; or, decolonising the canon  3. Queer theory; or, bending the canon  4. Class; or, dividing the canon  5. Reviews; or, popularising the canon  Conclusion: The end of the hyper-contemporary