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Twenty-First-Century Fiction Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

Twenty-First-Century Fiction par Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

Twenty-First-Century Fiction Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

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Résumé

This is the first full-length study of the twenty-first-century novel. It examines writers from around the world and identifies the formal and thematic features that their novels share, suggesting the outlines of a new phase in the genre's history.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction Résumé

Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolano. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction Avis

'... 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
'... a timely and highly welcome contribution to this slowly emerging field of twenty-first-century studies.' Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
'In Twenty-First-Century Fiction ... Boxall traverses a vast terrain, offering compelling close readings of more than a dozen novelists and connecting them with dozens more from around the world. His prose is lush and lyrical, his readings subtle and intellectually demanding. Sentence by sentence, both books are pleasure-reads for anyone who cares deeply about literary criticism.' Andrew Lanham, Notes and Queries
"... a compelling reading of twenty-first-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
"... a timely and highly welcome contribution to this slowly emerging field of twenty-first-century studies." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
'In Twenty-First-Century Fiction ... Boxall traverses a vast terrain, offering compelling close readings of more than a dozen novelists and connecting them with dozens more from around the world. His prose is lush and lyrical, his readings subtle and intellectually demanding. Sentence by sentence, both books are pleasure-reads for anyone who cares deeply about literary criticism.' Andrew Lanham, Notes and Queries

À propos de Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

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).

Sommaire

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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GOR005568645
9780521187299
052118729X
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)
Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)
Occasion - Très bon état
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Cambridge University Press
2013-06-24
278
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