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British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 and provides the latest critical perspectives on current British fiction. It offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a broad range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the new British writing. The book is organised around common themes - Modern Lives, Contemporary Living; Dreamtime; States of Identity and Histories. Each section begins with a short introductory essay and ends with a guide to further reading. Introducing key works, writers and major themes including post-colonialism, pluralism, gender and history, this book is the ideal guide to British fiction today. Includes discussion of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Ackroyd, Jenny Diski, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jeanetter Winterson, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Adam Thorpe and Sarah Waters
English fiction --- Roman anglais --- --XXe s., --- XXIe s., --- Littérature anglaise --- --History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism --- XXe s., 1901-2000 --- XXIe s., 2001-2100
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The Contemporary British Novel is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by students in the exciting but challenging field of contemporary fiction, the text is organised to focus on major topics including: - the changing nature of British identity; - the representation of urban identity and urban spaces; - class issues including the rise and fall of the middle class; - multiracial identity and hybridity.
English fiction --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- History and criticism. --- XXIe s., --- --English fiction --- Littérature anglaise --- --XXe s., --- Roman anglais --- XXe s., 1901-2000 --- XXIe s., 2001-2100 --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
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