Contemporary British Fiction

Contemporary British Fiction
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780748630370
ISBN-13 : 0748630376
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Book Synopsis Contemporary British Fiction by : Nick Bentley

Download or read book Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Bentley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.


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