Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 / / Brian W. Shaffer
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| Autore: |
Shaffer Brian W. <1960->
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| Titolo: |
Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 / / Brian W. Shaffer
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2006] |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.91409 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism | |
| Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | English-speaking countries Intellectual life 20th century |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-254) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: contexts and concepts for reading the novel in English 1950-2000 -- Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) -- William Golding's Lord of the flies (1954) -- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart (1958) -- Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) -- Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) -- J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians (1980) -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985) -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day (1989) -- Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy (1992) -- Graham Swift's Last orders (1996). |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts. Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction. Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kaz |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 |
| ISBN: | 9786610238170 |
| 0-470-99706-0 | |
| 0-470-79388-0 | |
| 0-470-99736-2 | |
| 1-280-23817-8 | |
| 1-4051-4880-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830518303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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