English fiction in the 1930s [[electronic resource] ] : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins
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| Autore: |
Hopkins Chris <1960->
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| Titolo: |
English fiction in the 1930s [[electronic resource] ] : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.91209 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Nineteen thirties | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Modernism and modernity -- pt. 2. Documentary and proletarian pastoral -- pt. 3. History and the historical novel -- pt. 4. Thrillers and dystopias. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | English fiction in the 1930s |
| ISBN: | 1-283-12297-9 |
| 9786613122971 | |
| 1-4411-7289-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789540403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Continuum literary studies.