Postwar British Fiction
Author: James Gindin
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 262
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Postwar British Fiction
Author: James Gindin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0520332520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
British Culture of the Post-War
Author: Alastair Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1135100152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on individual people and art forms give a clear and concise overview of the progression of different genres. They also discuss the wider issues of Britain's relationship with America and Europe, and the idea of Britishness. Each section is introduced with a short discussion of the major historical events of the period. Read as a whole, British Culture of the Postwar will give students a comprehensive introduction to this turbulent and exciting period, and a greater understanding of the cultural production arising from it.
Reconstruction Fiction
Author: Paula Derdiger
Publisher:
Published: 2022-08-08
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780814257708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on housing.
The Post-War Experimental Novel
Author: Andrew Hodgson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1350076856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed – or perhaps malformed – the post-war experimental novel, this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war normalization warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period. Hodgson investigates this space as it is portrayed in experimental modern British and French fiction, considering themes of amnesia, myopia, delusion and dementia. Such themes are constantly referred back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms these books often take – books in boxes; of spare pages to be shuffled at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely scrubbed out in smudged black ink. Covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and legitimizes the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures.
Postwar British Fiction
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published:
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosting the Male
Author: Daniel Lea
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789042009769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie Kay. The collection seeks to capture the current historical moment of 'crisis', at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes visible as a performative gender construct. Rather than denoting just one fixed, polarised point on a hierarchised axis of strictly segregated gender binaries, masculinity is revealed to oscillate within a virtually limitless spectrum of gender identities, characterised not by purity and self-containment but by difference and alterity. As the contributors demonstrate, rather than a gender 'in crisis' millennial manhood is a gender 'in transition'. Patriarchal strategies of man-making are gradually being replaced by less exclusionary patterns of self-identification inspired by feminism. Men have begun to recognise themselves as gendered beings and, as a result, masculinity has been set in motion.
Post-War Jewish Fiction
Author: D. Brauner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-07-18
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0230501494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.
Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon
Author: Nick Turner
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-04-11
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0826434541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA monograph analyzing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the the canon of post-war British writing has been formed.
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316419037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and literary genres that have affected the development of postwar British fiction, showing how writers have given voice to matters of racial, regional and sexual identity. Covering subjects from immigration and ecology to science and globalism, this Companion draws on the latest critical innovations to provide insights into the traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.
