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Author : RACHEL. HOLLAND
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9783030163778
Author : Rachel Holland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303016375X
This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes to assume an ever greater cultural significance, contemporary authors are engaging in new ways with ideas that it disseminates. A new literary phenomenon is emerging, in which the focus on language-based theories of the self and the world that has been predominant in the latter half of the previous century is making way for a renewed commitment to the material facts, both of human existence and the universe beyond subjectivity. The book analyses the work of Martin Amis, William Boyd, David Lodge, Richard Powers, Michel Houellebecq, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, and Ian McEwan, revealing the ways in which these ‘third culture novels’ negotiate the relationship between literature and science.
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307399265
An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change. Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. With a global scope, Solar is a comedy dealing directly with the crises of today. A story of one man's ambitions and self-deceptions, it is a startling and stylish new departure in the work of one of the world's great writers.
Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780199249336
A collection of essays on fiction in Britain, with contributions by contemporary novelists and critics such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter.
Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441102744
Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working in the contemporary period. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. This guide brings together a collection of fresh perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including his most recent novella, On Chesil Beach. It also includes a preface by Matt Ridley, the controversial writer on genetics and human behavior, about McEwan's obsession with science, as well as a unique discussion with McEwan himself.
Author : Julie Ellam
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2009-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826445381
A concise and accessible student guide to McEwan's popular novel.
Author : James Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135078629
The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider the contemporary dimensions of the interface between the sciences and humanities, developing the debate about the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary continuities and discontinuities. Further, the essays discuss contemporary writers’ attempts to engage the relation between the individual and the social, looking at the relation between the "syndrome syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary literature of neurological phenomena evident at the biological level) and existing work in the field of trauma studies (where explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have marked both these fields. The current literary preoccupation with neurological conditions presents us with a new and distinctive form of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis than with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings.
Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110863687X
From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere caused by the arrival of the internet and of social media, and changes in the global balance of power brought about by 9/11, the emergence of China and India as superpowers, and latterly the British vote to leave the European Union. British fiction of the period is intimately interwoven with these historical shifts. This collection brings together some of the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent.
Author : Neil McEwan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 1981-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349057126
Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2009-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826497225
An up-to-date reader of critical essays on Ian McEwan by leading international academics, covering McEwan's most recent novels including Saturday, On Chesil Beach and an analysis of the film adaptation of Enduring Love.