TY - BOOK ID - 78147274 TI - Contemporary British fiction and the artistry of space : style, landscape, perception PY - 2008 SN - 1472542347 1441161481 9781441161482 9781472542342 9781441145703 1441145702 9781441131928 1441131922 9781847064943 1847064949 9781306847407 1306847400 PB - London New York : Continuum, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Landscapes in literature. KW - Cities and towns in literature. KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Landscape in literature KW - English literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Espace KW - Littérature KW - Roman anglais KW - Paysage KW - Villes KW - Lieu (philosophie) KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - 21e siècle KW - Dans la littérature KW - Thèmes, motifs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78147274 AB - This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. David James considers the work of more than fifteen major British novelists to offer a wide-ranging and accessible commentary on the relationship between landscape and narrative design, demonstrating an approach to the geography of contemporary fiction enriched by the practice of aesthetic criticism. Moving between established and emerging novelists, the book reveals that spatial poetics allow us to chart distinctive and surprising affinities between practitioners, showing how writers today compel us to pay close attention to technique when linking the depiction of physical places to new developments in novelistic craft. ER -