Year: 2005
Compilers: Acheson J., Ross S.C.E.
Authors: The collective (see Contents)
Genre: Literary criticism, collection of articles
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 10: 0748618945
ISBN 13: 9780748618941
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 251
Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing largely on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, the essays provide expert and original analysis of the most recent trends in the theory and practice of contemporary British fiction. The volume is organised into four parts, relating to four major theoretical approaches to the contemporary British novel: realism, postcolonialism, feminism and postmodernism.
Acknowledgements
Introduction (James Acheson and Sarah C. E. Ross)
Part I: Realism and other -isms
1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Frederick M. Holmes)
2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas (Judith Seaboyer)
3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh (Alan Riach)
4 Angela Carter's Magic Realism (David Punter)
5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman (Laurence Nicoll)
6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction (Daniel Lea)
Part II: Postcolonialism and other -isms
7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions (Bruce King)
8 Salman Rushdie's Fathers (Hermione Lee)
9 Postcolonialism and The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith (Bart Moore-Gilbert)
10 Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction (Chantal Zabus)
Part III: Feminism and other -isms
11 Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil (Sarah C. E. Ross)
12 'Partial to Intensity': the Novels of A. L. Kennedy (Glenda Norquay)
13 Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway (Dorothy McMillan)
14 Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain (Sarah Sceats)
15 Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt (Katherine Tarbox)
16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Pcrformativity and the Gay Aesthetic (Paulina Palmer)
Part IV: Postmodernism and other -isms
17 (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes (Daniel Bedggood)
18 Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd (David Leon Higdon)
19 Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean Francois Lyotard and Sublime Terror (Cairns Craig)
Notes on Contributors
Index
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