03646nam 2200661Ia 450 991082095630332120240410104332.097866105013731-280-50137-50-7486-2624-710.1515/9780748626243(CKB)1000000000351201(EBL)264948(OCoLC)475989180(SSID)ssj0000129614(PQKBManifestationID)11144601(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129614(PQKBWorkID)10077863(PQKB)11636051(MiAaPQ)EBC264948(Au-PeEL)EBL264948(CaPaEBR)ebr10435261(CaONFJC)MIL50137(DE-B1597)614349(DE-B1597)9780748626243(EXLCZ)99100000000035120120050316d2005 fy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe contemporary British novel[electronic resource] /edited by James Acheson and Sarah C. E. Ross1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20051 online resource (iv, 250 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-1894-5 0-7486-1895-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; 1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro; 2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas; 3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh; 4 Angela Carter's Magic Realism; 5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman; 6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction; 7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions; 8 Salman Rushdie's Fathers; 9 Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith10 Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction 11 Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil; 12 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy; 13 Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway; 14 Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain; 15 Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt; 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: StWritten by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists. Focusing largely on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, the essays provide expert and original analysis of the most recent trends in the theory and practice of contemporary British fiction. This book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.823.91409Acheson James, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut131155Acheson James1947-131155Ross Sarah C. E292752MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820956303321The contemporary British novel4064400UNINA