Contemporary fiction: the novel since 1990
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2008
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
1
Reading contemporary
fiction
9
Is the novel novel ?
9
The death of the novel?
10
Glittering prizes
12
Book vs Internet
13
Is there a modern literary canon?
15
Contemporary novel, contemporary life?
17
Cultural
hybridity
and identity
19
Politics and the novel: Thatcherism
22
The arts in opposition
22
Salman Rushdie: the continuing controversy
24
Literature and taboo: the relish of the nasty
25
Biographical fictions
28
The British novel and war writing
30
The post-war experience
33
The novel and the end: millennial anxieties
34
AIDS and the post-1990 novel
37
Intertextuality and postmodernism
38
Assignments
40
2
Approaches to the texts
41
Who is the narrator?
41
Childhood and narrative
42
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
42
David Mitchell: Black Swan Green
44
Jonathan
Coe:
The Rotters Club
45
Narrative and dystopia
- 45
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
46
Narrative and intertextuality
47
Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
48
The omniscient narrator
49
Realism or magic realism?
50
The geographical present
51
The historical present
52
Hyper-realism
53
Historical realism
54
Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
54
Novel into film
56
Magic realism
56
Angela Carter: Wise Children
57
Yann
Martel:
Life
o f Pi
58
Jim
Crace:
Quarantine
59
End of empire and post-colonial writing
59
The Irish novel
61
William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault
62
ColmTóibín:
The Heather Blazing
63
Brian Moore: Lies of Silence
65
Coetzee
and South Africa
65
Hilary Mantel: A Change of Climate
67
The post-colonial novel in Britain
67
Andrea Levy: Small Island
67
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
68
Monica
Ali:
Brick Lane
69
Plot and structure
70
Linear narrative
71
Barry Unsworth: Morality Play
72
Structure and secrets
72
Michael Frayn: Spies and Louis Begley: Wartime Lies
73
Structure and the multi-layered narrative
74
Kate Atkinson: Behind the Scenes at the Museum
75
Closure
75
Character
77
Pat Barker: Regeneration
78
Character as subject: Roddy Doyle The Woman Who Walked into Doors
79
The reader s judgement
81
3
Texts and extracts
82
From Granta
82
Angela Carter
from Wise Children
84
J.M. Coetzee
from Disgrace
85
Kazuo Ishiguro
from Never Let Me Go
87
Andrea
Levy
from SmallIsland
88
Ian McEwan
from Saturday
89
Michael Ondaatje
from The English Patient
91
Jane Smiley
from A Thousand Acres
92
Zadie Smith
from White Teeth
95
ColmTóibín
from The Heather Blazing
97
William Trevor
from The Story of Lucy Gault
98
Barry Unsworth
from Morality Play
100
4
Critical approaches
102
Different interpretations: A Thousand Acres
102
Questioning the timelessness of literature
103
History and contextuality
104
Post-colonialism
105
Psychoanalytical readings
106
Is reading political?
107
5
How to write about contemporary fiction
109
Titles and openings
109
Genre and style
110
Structuring the essay
110
Writing comparatively 111
Critical sources 111
Using reviews
112
Assignments
117
6
Resources
119
Further reading
119
Glossary
120
Chronology
122
Index
125
Acknowledgements
128
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Contents
Introduction
1
Reading contemporary
fiction
9
Is the novel 'novel'?
9
The death of the novel?
10
Glittering prizes
12
Book vs Internet
13
Is there a modern literary canon?
15
Contemporary novel, contemporary life?
17
Cultural
hybridity
and identity
19
Politics and the novel: Thatcherism'
22
The arts in opposition
22
Salman Rushdie: the continuing controversy
24
Literature and taboo: the relish of the nasty
25
Biographical fictions
28
The British novel and war writing
30
The post-war experience
33
The novel and the end: millennial anxieties
34
AIDS and the post-1990 novel
37
Intertextuality and postmodernism
38
Assignments
40
2
Approaches to the texts
41
Who is the narrator?
41
Childhood and narrative
42
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
42
David Mitchell: Black Swan Green
44
Jonathan
Coe:
The Rotters' Club
45
Narrative and dystopia
- 45
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
46
Narrative and intertextuality
47
Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
48
The omniscient narrator
49
Realism or magic realism?
50
The geographical present
51
The historical present
52
Hyper-realism
53
Historical realism
54
Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
54
Novel into film
56
Magic realism
56
Angela Carter: Wise Children
57
Yann
Martel:
Life
o f Pi
58
Jim
Crace:
Quarantine
59
End of empire and post-colonial writing
59
The Irish novel
61
William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault
62
ColmTóibín:
The Heather Blazing
63
Brian Moore: Lies of Silence
65
Coetzee
and South Africa
65
Hilary Mantel: A Change of Climate
67
The post-colonial novel in Britain
67
Andrea Levy: Small Island
67
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
68
Monica
Ali:
Brick Lane
69
Plot and structure
70
Linear narrative
71
Barry Unsworth: Morality Play
72
Structure and secrets
72
Michael Frayn: Spies and Louis Begley: Wartime Lies
73
Structure and the multi-layered narrative
74
Kate Atkinson: Behind the Scenes at the Museum
75
Closure
75
Character
77
Pat Barker: Regeneration
78
Character as subject: Roddy Doyle The Woman Who Walked into Doors
79
The reader's judgement
81
3
Texts and extracts
82
From Granta
82
Angela Carter
from Wise Children
84
J.M. Coetzee
from Disgrace
85
Kazuo Ishiguro
from Never Let Me Go
87
Andrea
Levy
from SmallIsland
88
Ian McEwan
from Saturday
89
Michael Ondaatje
from The English Patient
91
Jane Smiley
from A Thousand Acres
92
Zadie Smith
from White Teeth
95
ColmTóibín
from The Heather Blazing
97
William Trevor
from The Story of Lucy Gault
98
Barry Unsworth
from Morality Play
100
4
Critical approaches
102
Different interpretations: A Thousand Acres
102
Questioning the timelessness of literature
103
History and contextuality
104
Post-colonialism
105
Psychoanalytical readings
106
Is reading political?
107
5
How to write about contemporary fiction
109
Titles and openings
109
Genre and style
110
Structuring the essay
110
Writing comparatively 111
Critical sources 111
Using reviews
112
Assignments
117
6
Resources
119
Further reading
119
Glossary
120
Chronology
122
Index
125
Acknowledgements
128 |
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