This Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Julian Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations and perspectives, the Guide examines the various issues in his work which have aroused critical interest (narration/voice, history/story, biography, infidelity, obsession). It also explores Barnes's combination of innovative techniques with conventional strategies in his novels, short stories and essays.
This Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Julian Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, i...
A fascinating insight into the twenty-first century's leading literary novelists An unprecedented insightinto the creative minds of someof the bestsellingauthors ofthenew millennium. The critically acclaimed and prize-winning authors include in this collection include: Julian Barnes Jonathan Coe Kazuo Ishiguro Hanif Kureishi David Lodge Arundati Roy Will Self Graham Swift
Each in-depth conversation explores thekey themes in contemporary literature and raises themes of genre, history, form and celebrity culture. Each interview is preceded by an...
A fascinating insight into the twenty-first century's leading literary novelists An unprecedented insightinto the creative minds of ...
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre-conceived patterns and categories in order to embrace the otherness of the text and accept to be...
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey in...
From 1959 to 1973, the writers B.S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose regularly wrote letters to each other in which they discussed their own work and literary preoccupations. They exchanged early drafts of poems, short stories, plays and novels, and their correspondence contains detailed comments and extended analyses of these texts, as well as illuminating reflections on literature, criticism, poetics and aesthetics. Though much of the correspondence is an extended literary discussion, it also contains moments of personal revelation, jokes and anecdotes so that the letters, with their surprising...
From 1959 to 1973, the writers B.S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose regularly wrote letters to each other in which they discussed their own work and litera...
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of Coe's work, offering readers a comprehensive and accessible overview of his novels, fiction and other writings, as well as the surrounding criticism. The volume also features a new interview with Coe.
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of C...
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of Coe's work, offering readers a comprehensive and accessible overview of his novels, fiction and other writings, as well as the surrounding criticism. The volume also features a new interview with Coe.
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of C...
