Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.
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The Contemporary British Novel
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
- 2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas
- 3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh
- 4 Angela Carterâs Magic Realism
- 5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman
- 6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amisâ Fiction
- 7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions
- 8 Salman Rushdieâs Fathers
- 9 Postcolonialism and âThe Figure of the Jewâ: Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith
- 10 Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warnerâs Fiction
- 11 Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil
- 12 âPartial to Intensityâ: The Novels of A. L. Kennedy
- 13 Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway
- 14 Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain
- 15 Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt
- 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic
- 17 (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes
- 18 Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd
- 19 Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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