British Fictions of the Sixties
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-05419-6 (ISBN)
British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the editor series editor of Bloomsbury’s Contemporary Critical Perspectives series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. His monograph The Making of London (2011) traces the representation of London in contemporary fiction.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Revolutions of the Mind
Chapter One: Authenticity and Audiotape
Chapter Two: Realism Renegotiated
Chapter Three: Women’s Skinny Fiction
Chapter Four: Infinite Londons
Chapter Five: English Anti-Novels
Chapter Six: The Extreme Sixties
Chapter Seven: Pornotopia
Conclusion: The Future of the Sixties
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2018 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 308 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-05419-4 / 1350054194 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-05419-6 / 9781350054196 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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