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UNINA9910791951203321 |
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Autore |
Tew Philip |
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Titolo |
Jim Crace [[electronic resource]] |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-123-7 |
1-84779-195-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary British Novelists |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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9780719069123; 9780719069123; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Exploring Craceland; 2 Communities and change: Continent (1986) and The Gift of Stones (1988); 3 Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992)and Signals of Distress (1994); 4 Death, belief and nature:Quarantine (1997) and Being Dead (1999); 5 Excess, passion and the uncanny:The Devil's Larder (2001) and Six [Genesis] (2003); Addendum: The Pesthouse (2007); Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and the United States. He was awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction prize (USA) for Being Dead in 2000.Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).Designed especially both for undergraduates of contem |
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