An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction
International Writing in English since 1970
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 13. May 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7456-1957-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During this period, a sea change has transformed fiction in English, and this collection introduces the key developments as well as the works of some of the most important writers today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-1957-6 (9780745619576)
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05/1999
Polity Press
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Person
Rod Mengham is Lecturer in Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in English, Jesus College, Cambridge
Content
Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Rod Mengham.
Part I: Issues:.
1. Constructions of Identity in Post-1970 Experimental Fiction: Kathleen M. Wheeler.
2. The Power to Tell: Rape, Race and Writing in Afro-American Women's Fiction: Maud Ellmann.
3. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-colonial Writing: Ato Quayson.
4. Movement in Fiction: John Harvey.
Part II: Key Texts and Authors: .
5. The Dissident Imagination: Beckett's Late Prose Fiction: Drew Milne.
6. The Mutations of William Burroughs: Geoff Ward.
7. 1973 The End of History: Cultural Change According to Muriel Spark: Rod Mengham.
8. Oswald our Contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra: N. H. Reeve.
9. Graham Swift and the Mourning After: Adrian Poole.
10. Mapping the Margins: Translation, Invasion and Celtic Islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller: Sophie Gilmartin.
11. The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson: Mark Wormald.
12. Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan: Kiernan Ryan.
13. Can Fiction Swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize: Geoff Gilbert.
Bibliography.
Index.
Part I: Issues:.
1. Constructions of Identity in Post-1970 Experimental Fiction: Kathleen M. Wheeler.
2. The Power to Tell: Rape, Race and Writing in Afro-American Women's Fiction: Maud Ellmann.
3. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-colonial Writing: Ato Quayson.
4. Movement in Fiction: John Harvey.
Part II: Key Texts and Authors: .
5. The Dissident Imagination: Beckett's Late Prose Fiction: Drew Milne.
6. The Mutations of William Burroughs: Geoff Ward.
7. 1973 The End of History: Cultural Change According to Muriel Spark: Rod Mengham.
8. Oswald our Contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra: N. H. Reeve.
9. Graham Swift and the Mourning After: Adrian Poole.
10. Mapping the Margins: Translation, Invasion and Celtic Islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller: Sophie Gilmartin.
11. The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson: Mark Wormald.
12. Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan: Kiernan Ryan.
13. Can Fiction Swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize: Geoff Gilbert.
Bibliography.
Index.