Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century.
An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US).
Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts.
Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction.
Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,...
Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentiet...
In Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian W. Shaffer provides the first critical survey of the life and work of the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. One of the most closely followed British writers of his generation, the Japanese-born, English-raised and -educated Ishiguro is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award), The Remains of the Day (1988, Booker Prize), and The Unconsoled (1995, Cheltenham...
In Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian W. Shaffer provides the first critical survey of the life and work of the Booker Prize-winning author of The Re...
