Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title The contemporary British novel since 2000 / edited by James Acheson.

Publication Info. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is in five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms 'realist', 'postmodernist', 'historical' and 'postcolonialist' fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms. Also discusses the works of: Maggie O'Farrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents pt. I Four Voices for the New Millennium -- 1. Ian McEwan: Lies and Deceptions / David Punter -- 2. David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century / Brian Finney -- 3. Hilary Mantel: Raising the Dead, Speaking the Truth / Lisa Fletcher -- 4. Zadie Smith: The Geographies of Marriage / Gretchen Gerzina -- pt. II Realism and Beyond -- 5. Maggie O'Farrell: Discoveries at the Edge / Susan Strehle -- 6. Sarah Hall: A New Kind of Storytelling / Sue Vice -- 7. A. L. Kennedy: Giving and Receiving / Alison Lumsden -- 8. Alan Warner: Timeless Realities / Alan Riach -- pt. III Postmodernism, Globalisation and Beyond -- 9. Ali Smith: Strangers and Intrusions / Monica Germana -- 10. Kazuo Ishiguro: Alternate Histories / Daniel Bedggood -- 11. Kate Atkinson: Plotting to Be Read / Glenda Norquay -- 12. Salman Rushdie: Archival Modernism / Vijay Mishra -- pt. IV Realism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Historical Fiction -- 13. Adam Foulds: Fictions of Past and Present / Dominic Head -- 14. Sarah Waters: Representing Marginal Groups and Individuals / Susana Onega -- 15. James Robertson: In the Margins of History / Cairns Craig -- pt. V Postcolonialism and Beyond -- 16. Mohsin Hamid: The Transnational Novel of Globalisation / Janet Wilson -- 17. Andrea Levy: The SS Empire Windrush and After / Sue Thomas -- 18. Aminatta Forna: Truth, Trauma, Memory / Jennifer MacGregor.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000-2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Added Author Acheson, James, 1947- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Contemporary British novel since 2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474403726 (OCoLC)957746219
ISBN 9781474403740 (electronic book)
1474403743 (electronic book)
9781474403726
1474403727
9781474403733
1474403735
1474403743 (webready PDF)
9781474403757 (epub)
1474403751 (epub)