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| Author | : B. Finney |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2006-10-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230207073 |
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This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture.
| Author | : Brian Finney |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2006-11-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780230008557 |
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This book focuses on the work of a group of British novelists who have broken in different ways from the realist British novel of the post Second World War period without losing their broad appeal among readers. Authors discussed include Salman Rushdie, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Kazuo Ishiguro. All of these writers have been compelled to seek out new narrative strategies to give appropriate expression to their different responses to a world dominated by global capital and by the media and electronic systems of communication serving its ends.
| Author | : George Orwell |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2022-11-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Download Nineteen eighty-four Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
| Author | : S. Henstra |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2009-11-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230297358 |
Download The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia.
| Author | : Robert Looby |
| Publisher | : Hotei Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2015-03-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 900429306X |
Download Censorship, Translation and English Language Fiction in People’s Poland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. It analyses the differences between originals and their translations, taking into account the available archival evidence from the files of Poland’s Censorship Office, as well as the wider social and historical context. The book examines institutional censorship, self-censorship and such issues as national quotas of foreign literature, the varying severity of the regime, and criticism as a means to control literature. However, the emphasis remains firmly on how censorship affected the practice of translation. Translators shaped Polish perceptions of foreign literature from Charlie Chan books to Ulysses and from The Wizard of Oz to Moby-Dick. But whether translators conformed or rebelled, they were joined in this enterprise by censors and pulled into post-war Poland’s cultural power structures.
| Author | : Peter Childs |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2013-08-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1441135561 |
Download Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal the emphases of twenty-first century fiction. Terror, fear, consumerism, multinationalism, and corporatism: the terms circulating in culture and social networks are evident in Smith's faith in ethical living, Aslam's consideration of multiculturalism, the novels Kunzru builds around the politics of identity and in the importance Mitchell places on the interconnectedness of human life. By putting the emergence of a new British literary dynamic in the context of ethical as well as global contexts, this study analyzes the transformed fictional perceptions of a world no longer defined by the stand off of super powers.
| Author | : Chris Hopkins |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2006-12-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1441172890 |
Download English Fiction in the 1930s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, middle and lowbrow categorisations of culture, between literature and mass culture, and between different conceptions of the role of the writer, politics and nationality, sexuality and gender identities. Chris Hopkins draws both on well-known texts and on novels which have only recently begun to be discussed by critics of the thirties - particularly those by women writers whose work has still not been related very clearly to the literary and political debates of the period. Organised in five sections each focusing on major genres, he takes a wide range of novels as case studies and discusses their uses of generic forms, relating them to other examples and to their historical, political and cultural contexts.
| Author | : M. Boccardi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2009-06-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230240801 |
Download The Contemporary British Historical Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
| Author | : Haruki Murakami |
| Publisher | : Bond Street Books |
| Total Pages | : 1342 |
| Release | : 2011-10-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385669445 |
Download 1Q84 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The long-awaited magnum opus from Haruki Murakami, in which this revered and bestselling author gives us his hypnotically addictive, mind-bending ode to George Orwell's 1984. The year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre 'proposal' to her. Having no other choice she agrees, but as a result of her actions she starts to feel as though she is gradually becoming detached from the real world. She has been on a top secret mission, and her next job leads her to encounter the superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange disturbance that develops over a literary prize. While Aomame and Tengo impact on each other in various ways, at times by accident and at times intentionally, they come closer and closer to meeting. Eventually the two of them notice that they are indispensable to each other. Is it possible for them to ever meet in the real world?
| Author | : Peter Mendes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351951076 |
Download Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').
