Poverty in Contemporary Literature

Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market

B. Korte, G. Zipp (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

149 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-349-49181-0 (ISBN)

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Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her books include English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (2000) and she is editor of The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007). Georg Zipp is an academic researcher at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His study on poverty in Contemporary Caribbean fiction is forthcoming.

1. Introduction 2. Premises and Concepts 3. Lifewriting 4. Popular Genre Fiction 5. Literary Fiction 6. Fiction for Children and Young Adults 7. Non-Fiction 8. Other Media 9. Conclusion Works Cited Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	VI, 149 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	2049 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Austerity • Contemporary fiction • Poverty in literature
ISBN-10	1-349-49181-0 / 1349491810
ISBN-13	978-1-349-49181-0 / 9781349491810
Zustand	Neuware