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Author(s): Brian W. Shaffer
ISBN(s): 9781405148801, 1405148802
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.88 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1405148802
ISBN 13: 9781405148801
Author: Brian W Shaffer

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts. Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction. Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

Reading the Novel in English 1950 2000 Reading the Novel 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000
The Modernist British Novel and After: “Antimodernist” and “Postmodernist” Reactions
It Can Happen Here: The British Novel as a Response to the Crisis of Civilization
Shifting Literary–National Paradigms: From the “English Novel” to the “Novel in English”
A Note on the “Novel”
Chapter 2 Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1954)
Chapter 3 William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)
Chapter 4 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)
Chapter 5 Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Chapter 6 Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Chapter 7 J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Chapter 8 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Chapter 9 Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989)
Chapter 10 Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992)
Chapter 11 Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996)

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