Postmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain /:

This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a...

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1. Verfasser: Dix, Hywel Rowland
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies.
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Zusammenfassung:This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the bre.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (170 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-167) and index.
ISBN:9781441117953
1441117954
9781441164193
1441164197
9781472542724
147254272X
9781441190987
1441190988

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