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Zusatztext If you want to get a sense of the larger patterns to be found in the kaleidoscope of recent and contemporary writing then this book is a very good place to start. Informationen zum Autor Randall Stevenson is Reader in English Literature and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Modernist Fiction (1992; revd. edn, 1998); A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth Century Novel in Britain (1993); The British Novel Since the Thirties (1986), as well as many articles on modernist and postmodernist fiction. Klappentext Critics have scarcely begun to write about the development of English literature at the end of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stevenson lucidly and engagingly examines the full range of contemporary writing in England, along with the literary, intellectual, and historical movements which shaped it. The result is a fascinating account not only of individual writers and texts, but of the whole imagination of a period we have just lived through but barely begun to understand. Zusammenfassung Charting developments in the literary field since 1960, this work pinpoints the origins of literary change in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times - to shadows of war and loss of empire; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratisation of life in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. Histories 1: 'Gleaming Twilight' - Literature, Culture, and Society 2: A Postmodern Age? - Literature, Ideas, and Traditions 3: An Age of Theory? - Critics, Readers, and Authors 4: A Golden Age? - Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade II. Poetry 5: Movement or Revival - the late 1950s to the 1980s 6: Movements and Counter-Movements - the 1960s to the 1980s 7: Politics and Postmodernism - the late 1970s to 2000 8: Rosebay Revived - Language, Form, and Audience for 'This Unpopular Art' III. Drama 9: A Public Art Form - the late 1950s to the 1970s 10: Last Year in Jerulsalem - Politics and Performance after 1968 11: 'Real Revolutionaries' - Politics and the Margins 12: Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism 13: Discovering the Body 14: Revolution, Television, Subsidy IV. Narrative 15: To the Crossroads - Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 16: A Darker Route - Moral and Historical Vision in the 1960s and 1970s 17: Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible - the 1970s to 2000 18: 'Double Lives' - Women's Writing and Gender Difference 19: 'The Century of Strangers' - Travellers and Migrants 20: Genres, Carnivals, and Conclusions Author Bibliographies Suggestions for Further Reading Works Cited Index ...
