Title A companion to the British and Irish novel 1945-2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer

Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 583 pages) Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture Blackwell companions to literature and culture. Contents The literary response to the Second World War / Damon Marcel Decoste -- The 'Angry' Decade and after / Dale Salwak -- English dystopian satire in context / M. Keith Booker -- The feminist novel in the wake of Virginia Woolf / Roberta Rubenstein -- Postmodern fiction and the rise of critical theory / Patricia Waugh -- The novel and the end of empire / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Postcolonial novels and theories / Feroza Jussawalla -- Fictions of belonging : national identity and the novel in Ireland and Scotland / Gerard Carruthers -- Black British interventions / John Skinner -- The recuperation of history in British and Irish fiction / Margaret Scanlan -- The literary prize phenomenon in context / James F. English -- Novelistic production and the publishing industry in Britain and Ireland / Claire Squires -- The novel and the rise of film and video : adaptation and British cinema / Brian McFarlane -- The English heritage industry and other trends in the novel at the millennium / Peter Childs -- Samuel Beckett's Watt / S.E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley -- George Orwell's dystopias: Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Erika Gottlieb -- Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels / Bernard Schweizer -- Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano / Patrick A. McCarthy -- The heart of the matter and the later novels of Graham Greene / Cedric Watts -- William Golding's Lord of the flies and other early novels / Kevin McCarron -- Amis, father and son / Merritt Moseley -- Dame Iris Murdoch / Margaret Moan Rowe -- Academic satire : the campus novel in context / Kenneth Womack -- Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet / Julius Rowan Raper -- The Oxford fantasists : C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Peter J. Schakel -- Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Bryan Cheyette -- Doris Lessing's The golden notebook / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / John J. Su -- John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / James Acheson -- Angela Carter / Nicola Pitchford -- Margaret Drabble / Margaret Moan Rowe -- V.S. Naipaul / Timothy Weiss -- Salman Rushdie / Nico Israel -- The Irish novel after Joyce / Donna Potts -- Anita Brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm -- Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot / Merritt Moseley -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day / Cynthia F. Wong -- Ian McEwan / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Graham Swift / Donald P. Kaczvinsky -- The Scottish new wave / David Goldie -- A.S. Byatt's Possession : a romance / Lynn Wells -- Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy / Anne Whitehead Summary A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 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. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie. Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene's 'Heart of the Matter', Jean Rhys's 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day'. Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel. Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction English fiction -- Irish authors Intellectual life Literature Romans. Literatura de expressão inglesa (história e crítica) -- Século 20 -- Irlanda. Romance. Irlandeses. SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Ireland -- In literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Subject Ireland Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Handbooks and manuals Handboeken (vorm) Form Electronic book Author Shaffer, Brian W., 1960- LC no. 2004007691 ISBN 9781405156165 1405156163 1405113758 9781405113755 9781405165099 140516509X 9780470757611 0470757612 1782684263 9781782684268 1280743379 9781280743375 9786610743377 6610743371

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