On modern British fiction
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On modern British fiction
Oxford University Press, 2002
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- : pbk
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Includes index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: hbk ISBN 9780199249329
内容説明
A landmark collection of essays on fiction in Britain over the last fifty years, including original contributions by the very best contemporary novelists and critics, such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter. Arranged thematically, pieces include developing a reception in America (Amis), how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel (Duguid), on commissioning and editing modern fiction (Franklin), the novel adapted for TV (Howard), modern historical fiction (Mantel), science fiction (Parrinder), crime writing (Priestman), 'Lad lit' after Lucky Jim (Showalter), and essays on Angus Wilson, Angela Carter, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, Naipaul, and Rushdie. Edited by Zachary Leader, this is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in modern British fiction.
目次
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. V. S. Pritchett and English comedy
- 2. No laughing matter: a word on Angus Wilson
- 3. Mother Tongue -- a memoir
- 4. Between Waugh and Wodehouse: comedy and Conservatism
- 5. Ladlit
- 6. Enigmas and homelands
- 7. No passes or documents are needed: the writer at home in Europe
- 8. Penelope
- 9. Why Christopher Isherwood stopped writing fiction
- 10. Shaping modern English fiction: the forming of contents and the contents of form
- 11. The politics of narrative in the postwar Scottish novel
- 12. The ruined futures of British science fiction
- 13. P. D. James and the distinguished thing
- 14. The novel adapted for television
- 15. Against Dryness
- 16. Commissioning and editing modern fiction
- 17. Before it becomes literature: how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel
- Index
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780199249336
内容説明
A landmark collection of newly commissioned essays on British fiction of the last fifty years by the very best contemporary novelists, critics, and academics, including contributions from Martin Amis, P. N. Furbank, Christopher Hitchens, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Patrick Parrinder, Elaine Showalter, James Wood, and Michael Wood. Among the topics discussed are the 'Englishness' of English comic fiction, its political conservatism, fiction and exile, Scottish fiction, the comissioning and editing of modern fiction, reviewing, the adaptation of fiction to television, genre fiction ('Ladlit', science fiction, crime fiction), and fictional form. There are also original essays on individual authors, including Christopher Isherwood, Angus Wilson, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. A fascinating collection for anyone seriously interested in modern British fiction.
目次
- 1: James Wood: V.S. Pritchett and English Comedy
- 2: P.N. Furbank: No Laughing Matter: A Word on Angus Wilson
- 3: Ian McEwan: Mother Tongue - A Memoir
- 4: Christopher Hitchens: Between Waugh and Wodehouse: Comedy and Conservatism
- 5: Elaine Showalter: Ladlit
- 6: Michael Wood: Enigmas and Homelands
- 7: Hilary Mantel: No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe
- 8: Wendy Lesser: Penelope
- 9: Katherine Bucknell: Why Christopher Isherwood Stopped Writing Fiction
- 10: Valentine Cunningham: Shaping Modern English Fiction: The Forms of the Content and the Contents of Form
- 11: Liam McIlvanney: The Politics of Narrative in the Post-war Scottish Novel
- 12: Patrick Parrinder: The Ruined Futures of British Science Fiction
- 13: Martin Priestman: P.D. James and the Distinguished Thing
- 14: Elizabeth Jane Howard: The Novel Adapted for Television
- 15: Martin Amis: Against Dryness
- 16: Dan Franklin: Commissioning and Editing Modern Fiction
- 17: Lindsay Duguid: Before it Becomes Literature: How Fiction Reviewers Have Dealt with the English Novel.
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