Download or read book Contemporary British Novelists written by Nick Rennison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.
Download or read book British Novelists and Their Styles written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After the Trauma written by Harvey Curtis Webster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake. Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists of the thirties and forties—Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, L. P. Hartley, C. P. Snow, who endured the disorder and violence of the Depression and World War II. Though all of these writers spoke with individual voices ranging from pessimism to joyful affirmation, they were all marked ineradicably by the turmoil of the period. The book closes with an overview of the writers who have developed since World War II. Penetrating, fresh, affirmative in its values, the book is an important assessment of this protean group of writers.
Download or read book Post War British Women Novelists and the Canon written by Nick Turner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph analyzing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the the canon of post-war British writing has been formed.
Download or read book Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 written by James Acheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into 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 arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist 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 OFarrell, 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.
Download or read book British Writers of the Thirties written by Valentine Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study of British writers and poets of the 1930s--including Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Waugh, and Greene-- examines the masterpieces of that momentous decade, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts--social, political, historical, ideological, and personal--in which they were composed. Cunningham maps out the dominant images and concerns, nothing less than the central obsessions and imposing images of the '30s imagination. He analyzes the obsession with violence, the "destructive element" of post-World War consciousness; the cult of youth, of schools and schoolmasters; the infatuation with heroes--flyers, mountaineers, and racing car drivers--and the related concern about "being small," weak, or neurotic in an age of mass politics. In order to illustrate this kaleidoscope of themes, Cunningham examines not only the canonical texts, but also "minor" forms and writings, including detective stories, films, and popular songs, showing how these neglected genres also illuminate the work of this period.
Download or read book Best of Young British Novelists written by Bill Buford and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Granta 123 written by John Freeman and published by Granta. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith, Tremain, Winterson . . . Long before they were household names, they were Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young Novelist list - in 1983, 1993, and 2003 - came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable characters and mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thirty years after the first collection, the magazine asked once again: which writers are setting the bar for a new decade in British literature?
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists written by Adrian Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Download or read book Ninety Percent of Everything written by Rose George and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
Download or read book The British Novelists written by William Mudford and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The British Novelists written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Novelists written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers written by Christine L. Krueger and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
Download or read book The British Novelists written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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