| Description |
1 online resource (911 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
|
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
|
| Contents |
Cover -- Volume I -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors Notes of Vol. I -- Preface -- Part One -- Chapter 1 Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry -- Chapter 2 British Literature Today: Twenty-First Century British Literature -- References -- Chapter 3 Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing -- References -- Chapter 4 Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama -- Part Two -- Chapter 5 Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies -- Introduction: Higgins' counter-realist experimentalism -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Brian Friel |
|
Friel's Early Life and Artistic Growth -- Apprentice Works and Inspirations -- The Birth of Modern Irish Drama -- The 'Troubles', Field Day, and Friel's Wild(e) Side -- Internationalizing Irish Drama -- The Later Years -- References -- Chapter 7 Alan Bennett -- References -- Chapter 8 Edward Bond -- The Future -- Bibliography -- Note -- Chapter 9 Seamus Heaney -- References -- Chapter 10 Michael Moorcock -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Angela Carter -- References -- Chapter 12 Christina Reid -- Plays -- Themes and Technique -- Conclusion -- References -- Note -- Chapter 13 Bernard MacLaverty -- References |
|
Notes -- Chapter 13a Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community -- Introduction -- The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death -- A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 I Am, Therefore I Think: Being and Thinking Inside the World of John Banville's Fiction -- Introduction -- Long Lankin: 'Where's the Little Heir of This House?' -- The Artistic Process: When We Dead Awaken ... We Find That We Have Never Lived -- The Infinities and The Plight of Being Non-human -- Chapter 15 Julian Barnes -- References |
|
Chapter 16 Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman's Fiction -- Language -- Place -- Conclusion -- James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Howard Barker (and " the Art of Theatre ") -- Biographical Landmarks -- The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe -- The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy -- The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy -- References -- Chapter 18 Marina Lewycka -- References -- Chapter 19 Dermot Healy -- References -- Chapter 20 David Edgar -- References -- Chapter 21 Ian McEwan |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
References-Notes-Chapter 22 Tom Paulin-Paulin's Literary and Critical Work-Paulin's Attitude Towards Politics-Understanding Northern Ireland through Other Cultures-Paulin's Interest in Russia-Paulin's Translation and Transformation of Poetry-References-Chapter 23 Graham Swift-References-Chapter 24 Martin Amis-Introduction-The Making of a Writer: The Biographical Background-Writing against the Father: The Early Fiction-London Fields: Postmodernism and the End of Jane Austen-Lionel Asbo: Atavism and the Yob Within-The Progress of Time |
| Notes |
The Zone of Interest |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism -- 21st century
|
|
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- 21st century
|
|
English literature
|
|
English literature -- Irish authors
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Bradford, Richard, 1957-
|
|
Gonzalez, Madelena.
|
|
Butler, Stephen (Stephen Joseph), 1978-
|
|
Ward, James
|
|
De Ornellas, Kevin.
|
| ISBN |
9781118902264 |
|
1118902262 |
|
9781119652649 |
|
1119652642 |
|
