Contemporary British fiction / / Nick Bentley

• Autore: Bentley Nick
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.91409
• Soggetto topico: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; English fiction; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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, Memory
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary British Fiction
• ISBN: 1-281-94768-7; 9786611947682; 0-7486-3037-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453558503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical guides to literature