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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature
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Overview
An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature.
Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more.
A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set:
- Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters.
- Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
- Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics
- Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former.
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118902301 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 11/02/2020 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Pages: | 912 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 2.30(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Volume OnePrefaceRichard Bradford
Part One
1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and PoetryRichard Bradford
2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literatureStephen Butler
3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish WritingJames Ward
4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary DramaKevin De Ornellas
Part Two
5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised AutobiographiesNeil Murphy
6. Brian FrielGraham Price
7. Alan BennettJoseph H. O’Mealy
8. Edward BondPeter Billingham
9. Seamus HeaneyAdam Hanna
10. Michael MoorcockMark Williams
11. Angela CarterAnja Muller-Wood
12. Christina ReidMichal Lachman
13. Bernard MacLaverty Richard Russell13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative CommunityPilar Villar-Argáiz
14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fictionAlisa Hemphill
15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)Vanessa Guignery
16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s FictionJohnny Rodger
17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala
18. Marina LewyckaHeather Fielding
19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)Keith Hopper
20. David EdgarSean Carney
21. Ian McEwanBrian Diemert
22. Tom Paulin - Writer and TranslatorStephanie Schwerter
23. Graham SwiftDaniel Lea
24. Martin AmisAndrew James
25. Peter AckroydJean-Michel Ganteau
26. Patrick McGrathSue Zlosnik
27. Medbh McguckianBarbola Farago
28. Paul MuldoonAlex Alonso
29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’Christine Berberich
30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel Laura J Burkinshaw
31. Linton Kwesi JohnsonEmily Taylor Merriman
32. Hanif KureishiLaurenz Volkmann
33. Colm TóibínKathleen Costello-Sullivan
34. Janice GallowayDorothy Mcmillan
35. Martin CrimpAleks Sierz
36. Adam ThorpeDominic Head
37. Benjamin ZephaniahGraham MacPhee
38. Jeanette WintersonSusana Onega
39. Jonathan CoeLaurent Mellet
40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will SelfKevin De Ornellas
Volume Two
PrefaceRichard Bradford
Part Two
41. Jackie KayNerys Williams
42. Kathleen JamieHeather Yeung
43. Ali SmithMonica Germanà
44. A.L. KennedyMonika Szuba
45. Monica AliMichael Perfect
46. Sarah WatersNatasha Alden
47. David GreigClare Wallace
48. David MitchellPatrick O’Donnell
49. Emma DonoghueAbigail Palko
50. Hari KunzruPeter Childs
51. Mark O’RoweDavid Clare
52. Conor McPhersonEamonn Jordan
53. China MiévilleEric Sandberg
54. Zadie SmithChris Holmes
Part Three
55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary PoetryDavid Wheatley
56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish LiteratureArianna Introna
57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)D.J. Howells
58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British NovelElsa Cavalié
59. LGBT and FictionJoseph Ronan
60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’Dr Grace Halden
61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of InterpretationHugo Frey
62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy WorldsKatharine Kittredge
63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.Katherine Byrne
64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish FictionDr. George Legg
65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime FictionStephen Butler
66. British Psychogeographical FictionEva M. Pérez-Rodríguez
67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British LiteratureJustine Goneaud
68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary DramaKevin De Ornellas
69. Verbatim TheatreCyrielle Garson
70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel.Rebecca Devine
71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-PersepectiveMadelena Gonzalez
72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in BritainJenni Ramone
73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social MediaMillicent Weber