Contemporary Novelists - British Fiction since 1970

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.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

M. Hutton

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Childs, M Hutton, M. Hutton, Hutton M.
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.09.2012
• EAN: 9780230249387
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24938-7
• Seiten: 328
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; B, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, English literature;fiction;novel, English literature; fiction; novel