British Fiction After Modernism
. Ed(S): Mackay, M.; Stonebridge, Lyndsey
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Paperback. This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. Editor(s): Mackay, M.; Stonebridge, Lyndsey. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.
This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349540877
SKU
V9781349540877
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Mackay, M.; Stonebridge, Lyndsey
GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK BERNARD BERGONZI Emeritus Professor of English at Warwick University, UK SARA CRANGLE Research fellow at Queen's College, University of Cambridge, UK ANDRZEJ GASIOREK Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK STEVEN JACOBI Full-time writer GREG LONDE PhD student at Princeton University, USA ... Read more
Reviews for British Fiction After Modernism
'[MacKay and Stonebridge's] brilliant understanding of the conditions of the novel after modernism has allowed them to revive this 'distant dream'. [...] This collection [...] offers a new vision of late modernity. It effectively explains the 'filmic narrative,' the montage and pastiche techniques.' - The European English Messenger