Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 /
"The author treats the English-language novel of this period as a socially-engaged and exploratory genre, one that challenges and stretches the prevailing canons of knowledge and literary representation in its bid to depict and probe an evolving present."--Jacket.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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| Series: | Reading the novel.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: contexts and concepts for reading the novel in English 1950-2000
- Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954)
- William Golding's Lord of the flies (1954)
- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart (1958)
- Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
- Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians (1980)
- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985)
- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day (1989)
- Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy (1992)
- Graham Swift's Last orders (1996).