Peter Boxall

Twenty-First-Century Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical introduction examines the formal and thematic features common among twenty-first-century writers from around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006911
• ISBN-10: 1107006910
• Artikelnr.: 38531151

Autorenporträt

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on modern and contemporary literature, including the recent books Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009) and 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die, 5th edition (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction: twenty-first-century fiction
1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century
2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century
3. The limits of the human
4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde
5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization
Bibliography
Index.

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Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first-century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

'... a compelling reading of 21st-century novels ... this is a refreshingly current and theoretically nuanced study. Boxall makes a persuasive and always readable case for contemporary fiction in relation to its social, cultural, and political contexts ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' J. Young, Choice