Introduction to Contemporary Fiction

International Writing in English since 1970

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During this period, a sea change has transformed fiction in English, and this collection introduces the key developments as well as the works of some of the most important writers today.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-05-13
Mått155 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780745619576

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Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Rod Mengham.Part I: Issues:.1. Constructions of Identity in Post-1970 Experimental Fiction: Kathleen M. Wheeler.2. The Power to Tell: Rape, Race and Writing in Afro-American Women's Fiction: Maud Ellmann.3. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-colonial Writing: Ato Quayson.4. Movement in Fiction: John Harvey.Part II: Key Texts and Authors: .5. The Dissident Imagination: Beckett's Late Prose Fiction: Drew Milne.6. The Mutations of William Burroughs: Geoff Ward.7. 1973 The End of History: Cultural Change According to Muriel Spark: Rod Mengham.8. Oswald our Contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra: N. H. Reeve.9. Graham Swift and the Mourning After: Adrian Poole.10. Mapping the Margins: Translation, Invasion and Celtic Islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller: Sophie Gilmartin.11. The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson: Mark Wormald.12. Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan: Kiernan Ryan.13. Can Fiction Swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize: Geoff Gilbert.Bibliography.Index.