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Author : British Council. Book Trust and the Literature Department
Publisher :
Release Date : 1988
ISBN 10 : OCLC:60865304
Pages : 66 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Nicola Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-08-08
ISBN 10 : 9781441135292
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (529 downloads)
Download Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel in PDF Full Online Free by Nicola Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Marginal' as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This study offers readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society. Nicola Allen analyses three conceptual categories representing the marginal subject in the contemporary British novel: the character of the misfit or outsider; the emergence of the grotesque; and the rediscovery of previously marginalized narratives such as myth and fantasy. This innovative and original monograph focuses on the contention that the contemporary novel of marginality conveys a belief in the socially transformative powers of narrative, and suggests that narrative has played a central role in bringing marginal politics and marginal issues to the fore in contemporary Britain.
Author : Joseph Darlington
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-19
ISBN 10 : 9783319778969
Pages : 152 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (896 downloads)
Download British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s in PDF Full Online Free by Joseph Darlington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism’s literary depiction provides insight into the politics of the decade. The book analyses texts from Gerald Seymour, Anthony Burgess, V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, B.S. Johnson, Tom Sharpe, and Eric Ambler, among others, in order to engage with the IRA, the end of Empire, counterculture and environmentalism. The book provides a brief history of terrorism as a concept and tactic before discussing British literature’s relationship with terrorism. It presents a “standard terrorist morphology” by which to analyse terrorist narratives along with other insights into the British post-war imagination, writing and extremism.
Author : British Council
Publisher :
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : UVA:X001775844
Pages : 68 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Peter Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-08-15
ISBN 10 : 9781441135568
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (556 downloads)
Download Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Childs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal the emphases of twenty-first century fiction. Terror, fear, consumerism, multinationalism, and corporatism: the terms circulating in culture and social networks are evident in Smith's faith in ethical living, Aslam's consideration of multiculturalism, the novels Kunzru builds around the politics of identity and in the importance Mitchell places on the interconnectedness of human life. By putting the emergence of a new British literary dynamic in the context of ethical as well as global contexts, this study analyzes the transformed fictional perceptions of a world no longer defined by the stand off of super powers.
Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : PSU:000048631778
Pages : 387 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download British Novelists Since 1960 in PDF Full Online Free by Merritt Moseley and published by Gale / Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1999 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.
Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105026157474
Pages : 439 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 in PDF Full Online Free by Merritt Moseley and published by Gale / Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 刘春芳
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Release Date : 2021-11-05
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download 当代英国小说中的都市文化困境 in PDF Full Online Free by 刘春芳 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书对马丁·艾米斯、伊恩·麦克尤恩和朱利安·巴恩斯三位作家的重要作品进行了研究，揭示出当代西方都市文化的多重困境，同时阐释了这种文化困境的表现方式及其产生的深层原因，解析了“三剑客”的文学作品所呈现的西方世界繁荣表象背后的真实本质，达成了对当代西方都市文化的多维认知和深入探究。
Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9780230345263
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (526 downloads)
Download Kazuo Ishiguro in PDF Full Online Free by Sebastian Groes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community. Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels presents eighteen fresh perspectives on the author's work that will appeal to those who read him for pleasure or for purposes of study. Established and rising critics reassess Ishiguro's works from the early 'Japanese' novels through to his short story cycle Nocturnes, paying particular attention to The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go. They address universal themes such as history, memory and mortality, but also provide groundbreaking explorations of diverse areas ranging from the posthuman and 'minor literature' to ethics, science fiction and Ishiguro's musical imagination. Featuring an insightful interview with Ishiguro himself, this collection of essays constitutes a significant contribution to the appreciation of his novels, and forms a lively and nuanced constellation of critical enquiry. Preface by Brian W. Shaffer. Essays by: Jeannette Baxter, Caroline Bennett, Christine Berberich, Lydia R. Cooper, Sebastian Groes, Meghan Marie Hammond, Tim Jarvis, Barry Lewis, Liani Lochner, Christopher Ringrose, Victor Sage, Andy Sawyer, Motoyuki Shibata, Gerry Smyth, Krystyna Stamirowska, Motoko Sugano, Patricia Waugh, Alyn Webley.
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-09
ISBN 10 : 9780941028769
Pages : 800 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (876 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature in PDF Full Online Free by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1977
ISBN 10 : 0719006775
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (9 downloads)
Download The Novel Today in PDF Full Online Free by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's most important contemporary authors reflect intelligently and imaginatively on the nature and development of the modern novel.
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : UVA:X002553219
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download British Book News in PDF Full Online Free by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-02-10
ISBN 10 : 9780826495013
Pages : 255 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (51 downloads)
Download The Post-War British Literature Handbook in PDF Full Online Free by Katharine Cockin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, accessible and lucid coverage of major issues and key figures in modern and contemporary British literature.
Author : Ben Masters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-04
ISBN 10 : 9780198766148
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (614 downloads)
Download Novel Style in PDF Full Online Free by Ben Masters and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury,we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century.Novel Style is driven by a conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking; crucial and enriching ways that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of frequently misunderstood English stylists of the late twentieth century(Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one andthe same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us.
Author : Sarah Seymore
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : 9783643903914
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (391 downloads)
Download Close Encounters of the Invasive Kind in PDF Full Online Free by Sarah Seymore and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and behavior onto the alien 'Other.' In this thesis, the case studies of 15 novels of alien-encounter science fiction illuminate the treatment of colonial and postcolonial concepts - such as colonialism, neo-colonialism, Empire, paternalism, hybridity, mimicry and science and technology - as a means of conquest and resistance. The analysis also shows that the Empire is still a vital background for British science fiction. Thesis. (Series: Anglistik / Amerikanistik; English / American Studies - Vol. 35)
Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-06-30
ISBN 10 : 9781441159588
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (958 downloads)
Download Julian Barnes in PDF Full Online Free by Sebastian Groes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date critical collection on the work of contemporary British novelist, Julian Barnes.
Author : Chris Megson
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-03-20
ISBN 10 : 9781408177891
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (789 downloads)
Download Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s in PDF Full Online Free by Chris Megson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume equips readers with an understanding of the context from which work emerged, a detailed overview of the range of theatrical activity and a close study of the work of four of the major playwrights by a team of leading scholars. Chris Megson's comprehensive survey of the theatre of the 1970s examines the work of four playwrights who came to promience in the decade and whose work remains undiminished today: Caryl Churchill (by Paola Botham), David Hare (Chris Megson), Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) and David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt). It analyses their work then, its legacy today and provides a fresh assessment of their contribution to British theatre. Interviews with the playwrights, with directors and with actors provides an invaluable collection of documents offering new perspectives on the work. Revisiting the decade from the perspective of the twenty-first century, Chris Megson provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1970s.