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Biofictions : race, genetics and the contemporary novel / / Josie Gill
Biofictions : race, genetics and the contemporary novel / / Josie Gill
Autore Gill Josie
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina 823.92093529
Collana Explorations in science and literature
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Race in literature
Science in literature
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction 1. The Roots of African Eve: Science Writing on Human Origins and Alex Haley's Roots 2. Race, Genetic Ancestry Tracing and Facial Expression: "Focusing on the Faces" in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 3. "One Part Truth and Three Parts Fiction": Race, Science and Narrative in Zadie Smith's White Teeth 4. "The Sick Swollen Heart of This Land": Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt 5. Mutilation and Mutation: Epigenetics and Racist Environments in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses Conclusion Bibliography Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910420856403321
Gill Josie  
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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British fiction today / edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham
British fiction today / edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; New York, : Continuum, 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina 823.91409
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-4725-4227-4
1-283-12254-5
9786613122544
1-4411-2867-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction; Rod Mengham & Philip Tew -- PART I: MODERN LIVES, CONTEMPORARY LIVING Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 1. The Middle Years of Martin Amis - Joe Brooker -- 2. Julian Barnes and a Case of English Identity - Dominic Head -- 3. Genre, Repetition and History in Jonathan Coe - Pam Thurschwell -- 4. Alan Hollinghurst and Homosexual Identity - Kaye Mitchell -- PART II: DISTORTIONS AND DREAMS -- Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 5. Reconsidering the Novels of Peter Ackroyd - Tamas Benyei -- 6. Jenny Diski's Millennial Imagination - Philip Tew -- 7. Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005- Chris Ringrose -- 8. Salman Rushdie: Paradox and Truth - Robert Eaglestone -- PART III: STATES OF IDENTITY -- Introduction - Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 9. Possessing Toby Litt's Ghost Story - Leigh Wilson -- 10. Ian McEwan's Ethical Fiction - Lynn Wells -- 11. Considering Zadie Smith's On Beauty - Fiona Tolan -- 12. Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping - Sonya Andermahr -- PART IV: HISTORIES -- Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 13. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy - Nick Hubble -- 14. A.S. Byatt's Woven Realism -Wendy Wheeler -- 15. Fiction's History: Adam Thorpe - Rod Mengham -- 16. Sarah Waters and the Victorians - Mark Wormald -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910461588003321
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2006
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British fiction today / edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham
British fiction today / edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; New York, : Continuum, 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina 823.91409
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-4725-4227-4
1-283-12254-5
9786613122544
1-4411-2867-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction; Rod Mengham & Philip Tew -- PART I: MODERN LIVES, CONTEMPORARY LIVING Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 1. The Middle Years of Martin Amis - Joe Brooker -- 2. Julian Barnes and a Case of English Identity - Dominic Head -- 3. Genre, Repetition and History in Jonathan Coe - Pam Thurschwell -- 4. Alan Hollinghurst and Homosexual Identity - Kaye Mitchell -- PART II: DISTORTIONS AND DREAMS -- Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 5. Reconsidering the Novels of Peter Ackroyd - Tamas Benyei -- 6. Jenny Diski's Millennial Imagination - Philip Tew -- 7. Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005- Chris Ringrose -- 8. Salman Rushdie: Paradox and Truth - Robert Eaglestone -- PART III: STATES OF IDENTITY -- Introduction - Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 9. Possessing Toby Litt's Ghost Story - Leigh Wilson -- 10. Ian McEwan's Ethical Fiction - Lynn Wells -- 11. Considering Zadie Smith's On Beauty - Fiona Tolan -- 12. Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping - Sonya Andermahr -- PART IV: HISTORIES -- Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- 13. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy - Nick Hubble -- 14. A.S. Byatt's Woven Realism -Wendy Wheeler -- 15. Fiction's History: Adam Thorpe - Rod Mengham -- 16. Sarah Waters and the Victorians - Mark Wormald -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789441303321
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2006
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Climate crisis and the 21st-century British novel / / Astrid Bracke
Climate crisis and the 21st-century British novel / / Astrid Bracke
Autore Bracke Astrid
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (193 pages)
Disciplina 823/.920936
823.920936
Collana Environmental cultures series
Soggetto topico English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Climatic changes in literature
ISBN 9781474271158
1474271154
9781474271134
1474271138
9781474271141
1474271146
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction: climate crisis and the cultural imagination -- Collapse -- Pastoral -- Urban -- Polar -- Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910597144103321
Bracke Astrid  
London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017
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A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina 823.91409
823/.91409
Altri autori (Persone) EnglishJames F. <1958->
Collana Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-4051-6497-2
1-280-28611-3
9786610286119
0-470-79990-0
0-470-75767-1
1-4051-5215-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910143304603321
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
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A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina 823.91409
823/.91409
Altri autori (Persone) EnglishJames F. <1958->
Collana Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-4051-6497-2
1-280-28611-3
9786610286119
0-470-79990-0
0-470-75767-1
1-4051-5215-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.
Record Nr. UNISA-996205505203316
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
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A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina 823.91409
823/.91409
Altri autori (Persone) EnglishJames F. <1958->
Collana Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-4051-6497-2
1-280-28611-3
9786610286119
0-470-79990-0
0-470-75767-1
1-4051-5215-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910830206103321
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
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A concise companion to contemporary British fiction / / edited by James F. English
A concise companion to contemporary British fiction / / edited by James F. English
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina 823/.91409
Altri autori (Persone) EnglishJames F. <1958->
Collana Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 9786610286119
9781405164979
1405164972
9781280286117
1280286113
9780470799901
0470799900
9780470757673
0470757671
9781405152150
140515215X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.
Record Nr. UNINA-9911019414203321
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
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Contemporary British children's fiction and cosmopolitanism / / by Fiona McCulloch
Contemporary British children's fiction and cosmopolitanism / / by Fiona McCulloch
Autore McCulloch Fiona
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (213 pages)
Disciplina 823.009/9282
823.92099282
Collana Children's Literature and Culture
Soggetto topico Children's stories, English - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Cosmopolitanism in literature
ISBN 1-317-57394-3
0-367-34625-7
1-315-73851-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto pt. 1. Ethical endeavours -- pt. 2. Conflict and conciliation -- pt. 3. Future freedoms.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910150347703321
McCulloch Fiona  
New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
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Contemporary British fiction / / Nick Bentley
Contemporary British fiction / / Nick Bentley
Autore Bentley Nick
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages)
Disciplina 823.91409
Collana Edinburgh critical guides to literature
Soggetto topico English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 9786611947682
9781281947680
1281947687
9780748630370
0748630376
Classificazione HN 1295
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910966635603321
Bentley Nick  
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008
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