02198nam 2200505 450 991015900200332120200520144314.01-5261-2109-31-5261-0799-6(CKB)3710000001018587(MiAaPQ)EBC4786647(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665949(Au-PeEL)EBL4786647(CaPaEBR)ebr11330820(OCoLC)968906275(EXLCZ)99371000000101858720170130h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTwenty-first-century fiction contemporary British voices /Daniel LeaManchester, Michigan :Manchester University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (266 pages)Manchester SpenserPreviously issued in print: 2016.1-5261-0800-3 0-7190-8149-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.This work offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through close readings of the work of Ali Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Daniel Lea opens a window onto the formal and thematic concerns that characterise a literary landscape troubled by both familiar and unfamiliar predicaments. These include questions about the meaning of humanness in an age of digital intercourse; about the need for a return to authenticity in the wake of postmodernism; and about the dislocation of self from the other under neoliberal individualism.Manchester Spenser.English fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.823.9209Lea Daniel884325MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910159002003321Twenty-first-century fiction1974761UNINA