Review of Contemporary Fiction - The Future of British Fiction

Informationen zum Autor JOHN O'BRIEN also is the author and illustrator of Mother Hubbard's Christmas, which Booklist calls "a yuk-filled read-aloud." He lives in Delran, New Jersey. Irving MaIin is a member of the faculty of City College of New York. Patricia Waugh is Professor of English Studies at Durham University. Jennifer Hodgson is a PhD researcher at Durham University and UK Editor at Dalkey Archive Press. Klappentext Contributors such as Stewart Home, China Mieville, and Maureen Freely pose difficult questions about the place of literature in contemporary Britain--where it's been, and where it's going. Zusammenfassung This issue of the "Review of Contemporary Fiction" is, for the first time, devoted to--but not devotional toward--contemporary British fiction. Bringing together writers, literary critics, and academics with the aim of challenging fossilized approaches to British contemporary fiction, and attesting to the vitality (or otherwise) of the British novel today, contributors such as Stewart Home, China Mi?ville, Maureen Freely, and Patricia Waugh pose difficult questions about the status of the literary in contemporary Britain--where it's been, and where it's going.

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• Authors: Jennifer Hodgson
• Assisted by: Jennifer Hodgson (Editor), Irving Malin (Editor), John O'Brien (Editor), Patricia Waugh (Editor), Professor of English Patricia Waugh (Editor)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2013
• EAN: 9781564788924
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-892-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Review of Contemporary Fiction; Review of Contemporary Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies