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Zusatztext English theatre fared better, raising issues of class (kitchen-sink drama) and sex, with Harold Pinter adding a dash of Beckettian absurdity; though its faltering progress is neatly summed up in the chapter title "Revolution, Television, Subsidy". As for the English novel, everyone was busy predicting its demise in the 1960s, but it was still going strong at the end of the century, with Salman Rushdie giving it a new multicultural spin. If this wise and fascinating survey has a single message, it is not to confuse change with loss. 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), and many articles on modernist and postmodernist fiction. Klappentext The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors! works! cultural traditions! events! and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying! teaching! and researching in EnglishLiterature! but all serious readers. In the 1960s literature began to throw off its post-war weariness. New voices! new visions! and new commitments emerged and continued to reshape writing profoundly and excitingly throughout the rest of the century. Critics have scarcely begun to chart the scale and diversity of these changes. Thisnew volume in The Oxford English Literary History maps them comprehensively. It also identifies the historical! social and intellectual pressures which brought them about. Throughout! literary developments are dexterously related to the wider evolution of English experience in the late twentiethcentury--to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; the broadening democratization of contemporary life in general. Analyses of the rise of literary theory! of publishing and the book trade! andof the pervasive influences of modernism and postmodernism contribute further to an impressively comprehensive! insightful account of this period--a far more imaginative and exciting one for English writing than has yet been generally recognized. Zusammenfassung Charting developments in the literary field since 1960, this book pinpoints the origins of literary change in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. It also covers the shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Last Things First 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: Counter-movements and Modernist Memories: 1960 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 Jerusalem: 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: Morality and...
