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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, Band 45 1. Aufl.
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Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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Veröffentl.: | 15.04.2008 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781405156165 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 604 |
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<p><b><i>A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000</i> serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium.</b></p> <ul> <li>Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie</li> <li>Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene's <i>Heart of the Matter</i>, Jean Rhys's <i>Wide Sargasso Sea</i> and Kazuo Ishiguro's <i>The Remains of the Day</i></li> <li>Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel</li> <li>Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon</li> <li>Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface xvi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xx</p> <p><b>PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945–2000 1</b></p> <p>1 The Literary Response to the Second World War 3<br /><i>Damon Marcel DeCoste</i></p> <p>2 The ‘‘Angry’’ Decade and After 21<br /><i>Dale Salwak</i></p> <p>3 English Dystopian Satire in Context 32<br /><i>M. Keith Booker</i></p> <p>4 The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf 45<br /><i>Roberta Rubenstein</i></p> <p>5 Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory 65<br /><i>Patricia Waugh</i></p> <p>6 The Novel and the End of Empire 83<br /><i>Reed Way Dasenbrock</i></p> <p>7 Postcolonial Novels and Theories 96<br /><i>Feroza Jussawalla</i></p> <p>8 Fictions of Belonging: National Identity and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland 112<br /><i>Gerard Carruthers</i></p> <p>9 Black British Interventions 128<br /><i>John Skinner</i></p> <p>10 The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction 144<br /><i>Margaret Scanlan</i></p> <p>11 The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context 160<br /><i>James F. English</i></p> <p>12 Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland 177<br /><i>Claire Squires</i></p> <p>13 The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema 194<br /><i>Brian McFarlane</i></p> <p>14 The English Heritage Industry and Other Trends in the Novel at the Millennium 210<br /><i>Peter Childs</i></p> <p><b>PART II Reading Individual Texts and Authors 225</b></p> <p>15 Samuel Beckett’s Watt 227<br /><i>S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley</i></p> <p>16 George Orwell’s Dystopias: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four 241<br /><i>Erika Gottlieb</i></p> <p>17 Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels 254<br /><i>Bernard Schweizer</i></p> <p>18 Modernism’s Swansong: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano 266<br /><i>Patrick A. McCarthy</i></p> <p>19 The Heart of the Matter and the Later Novels of Graham Greene 278<br /><i>Cedric Watts</i></p> <p>20 William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels 289<br /><i>Kevin McCarron</i></p> <p>21 Amis, Father and Son 302<br /><i>Merritt Moseley</i></p> <p>22 Dame Iris Murdoch 314<br /><i>Margaret Moan Rowe</i></p> <p>23 Academic Satire: The Campus Novel in Context 326<br /><i>Kenneth Womack</i></p> <p>24 Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet 340<br /><i>Julius Rowan Raper</i></p> <p>25 The Oxford Fantasists: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien 354<br /><i>Peter J. Schakel</i></p> <p>26 Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 367<br /><i>Bryan Cheyette</i></p> <p>27 Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook 376<br /><i>Judith Kegan Gardiner</i></p> <p>28 Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 388<br /><i>John J. Su</i></p> <p>29 John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman 398<br /><i>James Acheson</i></p> <p>30 Angela Carter 409<br /><i>Nicola Pitchford</i></p> <p>31 Margaret Drabble 421<br /><i>Margaret Moan Rowe</i></p> <p>32 V. S. Naipaul 432<br /><i>Timothy Weiss</i></p> <p>33 Salman Rushdie 444<br /><i>Nico Israel</i></p> <p>34 The Irish Novel after Joyce 457<br /><i>Donna Potts</i></p> <p>35 Anita Brookner 469<br /><i>Cheryl Alexander Malcolm</i></p> <p>36 Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot 481<br /><i>Merritt Moseley</i></p> <p>37 Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day 493<br /><i>Cynthia F. Wong</i></p> <p>38 Ian McEwan 504<br /><i>Rebecca L. Walkowitz</i></p> <p>39 Graham Swift 515<br /><i>Donald P. Kaczvinsky</i></p> <p>40 The Scottish New Wave 526<br /><i>David Goldie</i></p> <p>41 A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance 538<br /><i>Lynn Wells</i></p> <p>42 Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy 550<br /><i>Anne Whitehead</i></p> <p>Index 561</p>
"Esseintally two books in one, this is both a useful reference guide and a detailed introduction tot he postwar British novel." Recommended."<br /> <i>Choice</i><br />
<b>Brian W. Shaffer</b> is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of <i>The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization</i> (1993) and <i>Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro</i> (1998). He is also the co-editor with Hunt Hawkins of <i>Approaches to Teaching Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and “The Secret Sharer”</i> (2002).
<i>A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000</i> serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. <p>The <i>Companion</i> embraces the full range of this rich and heterogeneous subject, covering: specific British and Irish novels and novelists ranging from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie; particular subgenres such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel; overarching cultural, political, and literary trends such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon. All the essays are informed by current critical and theoretical debates, but are designed to be accessible to non-specialists.</p> <p>The volume as a whole gives readers a sense of the vitality with which the contemporary novel continues to be discussed.</p>
"Esseintally two books in one, this is both a useful reference guide and a detailed introduction tot he postwar British novel." Recommended."<br /> <i>Choice</i><br />