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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780805403321

Autore

Schoene-Harwood Berthold

Titolo

The cosmopolitan novel / / Berthold Schoene [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5179-9

1-282-70309-9

9786612703096

0-7486-4083-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

EC 5410

Disciplina

823.91409

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

English literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Cosmopolitanism in literature

Globalization in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Imagining cosmopolitics. Families against the world : Ian McEwan ; James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads -- Tour de monde. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think -- Creating the world. Global noise : Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru ; Suburban worlds : Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor -- Coda: The cosmopolitan imagination.

Sommario/riassunto

This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community.