02905nam 22006253u 450 991078234440332120231018213147.01-281-94768-797866119476820-7486-3037-610.1515/9780748630370(CKB)1000000000552662(EBL)380396(OCoLC)304174101(SSID)ssj0000129612(PQKBManifestationID)11936996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129612(PQKBWorkID)10078934(PQKB)11267995(MiAaPQ)EBC380396(DE-B1597)616911(DE-B1597)9780748630370(OCoLC)1302164504(EXLCZ)99100000000055266220130418d2008 u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContemporary British fiction /Nick Bentley.Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2008.1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages)Edinburgh critical guides to literature.Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2419-8 Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Narrative Forms: Postmodernism and Realism; 2. Writing Contemporary Ethnicities; 3. Gender and Sexuality; 4. History, Memory and Writing; 5. Narratives of Cultural Space; Conclusion; Student Resources; IndexThis critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture. A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes:. (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, MemoryEdinburgh critical guides to literatureEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismEnglish fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.823.91409HN 1295rvkBentley Nick295132AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910782344403321Contemporary British Fiction1127035UNINA