[PDF] The British And Irish Novel Since 1960 eBook

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 1991-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349215228

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The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most important British and Irish novelists of today. They not only consider afresh the work of novelists who established their reputations before 1960, such as Doris Lessing and William Golding; they also discuss the work of more recent novelists, among them Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter and Graham Swift. The contributors are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and provide a variety of original perspectives on the novelists concerned.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349227625

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The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and Irish drama of our time.

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405156163

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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper fiction, the future of the novel, recent changes in British publishing, and the increase in writings by celebrity authors.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350310522

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This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442276207

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The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Ben Masters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198766149

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Marrying lyrical close reading with critical awareness, Novel Style argues for the ethical value of elaborate styles of writing and demonstrates that artistic excessiveness can provide dynamic responses to the moral complexities of our times.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791427682

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This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1847797237

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this ‘new’ generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns.

Author : Nicky Marsh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826495443

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A key monograph surveying the portrayal of finance and money in British fiction over the last thirty years.