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1 online resource (xxi, 202 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This text provides students & readers with an introduction to key authors & novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. It offers comprehensive coverage of a range of contemporary authors, drawing together both established & emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the British writing. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Tew, Philip.
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Mengham, Rod, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: British fiction today. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006 0826487327 (DLC) 2007272283 (OCoLC)71164617 |
| ISBN |
9781441128676 (electronic book) |
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1441128670 (electronic book) |
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0826487327 |
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9780826487322 |
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0826487319 |
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9780826487315 |
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