TY  - BOOK
AU  - Acheson,James
AU  - Craig,Cairns
AU  - Higdon,David Leon
AU  - Holmes,Frederick M.
AU  - King,Bruce
AU  - Lea,Daniel
AU  - Lee,Hermione
AU  - McMillan,Dorothy
AU  - Moore-Gilbert,Bart
AU  - Nicoll,Laurence
AU  - Norquay,Glenda
AU  - Palmer,Paulina
AU  - Punter,David
AU  - Riach,Alan
AU  - Ross,Sarah
AU  - Ross,Sarah C.E.
AU  - Sceats,Sarah
AU  - Seaboyer,Judith
AU  - Tarbox,Katherine
AU  - Zabus,Chantal
TI  - The Contemporary British Novel
SN  - 9780748618941
AV  - PR883 .C56 2005eb
U1  - 823.91409 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I: Realism and other -isms --; 1. Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro --; 2. Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas --; 3. The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh --; 4. Angela Carter's Magic Realism --; 5. Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman --; 6. One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction --; Part II: Postcolonialism and other -isms --; 7. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions --; 8. Salman Rushdie's Fathers --; 9. Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith --; 10. Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction --; Part III: Feminism and other -isms --; 11. Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil --; 12. 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy --; 13. Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway --; 14. Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain --; 15. Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt --; 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic --; Part IV: Postmodernism and other -isms --; 17. (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes --; 18. Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd --; 19. Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618958);Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.The book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.Key FeaturesLiterary critical 'isms' are described in clear, jargon-free language. Focuses on British fiction since 1980 giving coverage of established authors such as Angela Carter and Ian McEwan as well as little addressed novelists such as James Kelman and Zadie Smith. Essays are by leading scholars in contemporary fiction."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626243
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748626243
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748626243/original
ER  -