Contemporary Crisis Fictions - Affect and Ethics in the Modern British Novel

Informationen zum Autor Emily Horton is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary British and American fiction, specialising in space and place; contemporary genre and popular fiction; trauma fiction; and cosmopolitan fictions. She is currently co-editing a volume with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson entitled 1980: A Decade in Contemporary Fiction, and another with Monica Germana on Ali Smith. Klappentext This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project. Zusammenfassung This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift! Ian McEwan! and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation! these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials! at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Contemporary Crisis Fiction: A New Approach to the Writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 1. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre 2. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reassessments of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift. 3. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan 4. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro Epilogue: A Review of Contemporary Crisis Fiction with an Emphasis on Overlap Between the Works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: E Horton, E. Horton, Emily Horton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137350190
• ISBN: 978-1-137-35019-0
• No. of pages: 273
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy