British fiction today. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham.
• Other Names: Tew, Philip; Mengham, Rod, 1953-
• Contents: PART I: MODERN LIVES, CONTEMPORARY LIVING -- 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 -- 5. Reconsidering the Novels of Peter Ackroyd / Tamas Benyei -- 6. Jenny Diski's Millennial Imagination [Diski] / Philip Tew -- 7. Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005 [Okr] i- 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 [Litt] / Leigh Wilson -- 10. Ian McEwan's Ethical Fiction [McEwan] / Lynn Wells -- 11. Considering Zadie Smith's On Beauty [Smith] / Fiona Tolan -- 12. Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping [Winterson] / Sonya Andermahr -- PART IV: HISTORIES -- 13. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy [Barker] / Nick Hubble -- 14. A.S. Byatt's Woven Realism [Byatt] / Wendy Wheeler -- 15. Fiction's History: Adam Thorpe / Rod Mengham -- 16. Sarah Waters and the Victorians / Mark Wormald.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 823.91409; Literary Criticism -- General; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; English fiction; Roman -- englischer -- Geschichte 1945 ff; Roman -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2005 -- Aufsatzsammlung; Roman; Engelska romaner -- historia -- 1990-talet -- sekelskiftet 2000; Literary studies: from c 1900; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441181053; 1441181059
• Related ISBNs: 9780826487315
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