Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 245 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0748624201
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0748624198
,
0748630376
,
9780748624201
,
9780748624195
,
9780748630370
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical guides to literature
Content:
This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture. A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes:. (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory
Content:
Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Narrative Forms: Postmodernism and Realism; 2. Writing Contemporary Ethnicities; 3. Gender and Sexuality; 4. History, Memory and Writing; 5. Narratives of Cultural Space; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bentley, Nick Contemporary British fiction Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Language:
English
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