The Politics of Community in Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : Peter Matthew Kieran Ely |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019 |
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Community in Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : Sara Upstone |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2022-10-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350244031 |
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Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda Craig, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe, Bernie McGill, Jan Carson, Guy Gunaratne, Anthony Cartright, Barney Farmer, Maggie Gee and Sarah Hall. Demonstrating some of the resources that literature can offer for a renewed understanding of community, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how British Literature contributes to our understanding of society in both the past and present, and how such understanding can potentially help us to shape the future.
Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
| Author | : A. Beaumont |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2015-12-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137393726 |
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By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : James F. English |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 140515215X |
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.
Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City
| Author | : Magali Cornier Michael |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2018-07-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319897284 |
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The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain’s experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (EU) have had a marked influence on British ideas about and British literature’s depiction of the city and urban contexts. Recent British fiction focuses in particular on cities as intertwined with globalization and global capitalism (including the proliferation of media) and with issues of immigration and migration. Indeed, decolonization has brought large numbers of people from former colonies to Britain, thus making British cities ever more diverse. Such mixing of peoples in urban areas has led to both racist fears and possibilities of cosmopolitan co-existence.
Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : Nick Bentley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2017-11-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137009659 |
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This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives. Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.
The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : Nick Hubble |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-02-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1623563852 |
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade's diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. Tying the popularity of Angela Carter and Fay Weldon to the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement and calling attention to a new interest in documentary modes of autobiographical writing, this volume also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers. Against a backdrop of social tensions, this major critical reassessment of the 1970s defines, explores and better understands the criticism and fiction of a decade marked by the sense of endings.
Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : F. McCulloch |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2012-07-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137030011 |
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This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love.
Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction
| Author | : Nicky Marsh |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2007-11-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1441153845 |
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Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming's Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up and Martin Amis' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the 'weightless' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary culture. In these novels, the implications of finance capitalism for political identity, for class politics, for the sovereignty of the nation state and a new global order are all explored, dramatised and critiqued. Authors covered include Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and Malcolm Bradbury.
Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel
| Author | : Nicola Allen |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1441147365 |
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The 'Marginal' as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This study offers readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society. Nicola Allen analyses three conceptual categories representing the marginal subject in the contemporary British novel: the character of the misfit or outsider; the emergence of the grotesque; and the rediscovery of previously marginalized narratives such as myth and fantasy. This innovative and original monograph focuses on the contention that the contemporary novel of marginality conveys a belief in the socially transformative powers of narrative, and suggests that narrative has played a central role in bringing marginal politics and marginal issues to the fore in contemporary Britain.
