London Fiction At The Millennium

Author : Claire Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030488861
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Fiction at the Millennium written by Claire Allen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743977
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Fields written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME). “Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Author : Claire Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Postmodernism written by Claire Allen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennium People written by J. G. Ballard and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like a random act of violence to psychologist David Markham, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is a victim. He starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, focusing on a group based in the comfortable estate of Chelsea Marina.

Author : Nora Pleßke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839426723
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

Author : Nicoletta Vallorani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788857513393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennium London written by Nicoletta Vallorani and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literary studies and comparing works by Iain Sinclair and Will Self. For both, London evokes the endless reservoir of films, novels, images, and cultural materials that finds in this city a fruitful source of inspiration.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802616
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Millennium written by Upton Sinclair and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes killing everybody throughout the world except eleven of the people at the Pleasure Palace. They escape the deadly rays by flying high in the sky in a revolutionary 1000-mph airplane called "The Monarch of the Air!" The fortunate eleven survivors struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a capitalistic society. After that fails, along with several other inept efforts, they create a successful utopian society on the lush grounds of a grand country estate in the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River. Sinclair's life-long vision, "The Cooperative Commonwealth," reigns happily forever after, in this classic of the literature of political imagination.

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847064078
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain written by Hywel Dix and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life.

Author : Beverly R. Sherringham
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475915259
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales for a New Millennium written by Beverly R. Sherringham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales for a New Millennium brings Ovids Metamorphoses to life on the streets of New York, Rome, and London. The modern gods and goddesses are emblematic of the same blinding forces of power, lust, and hubris that plagued their illustrious predecessors of yore. Each Ovidian transformation reminds readers that they are on the same trajectory as Phaeton as he attempts to steer an uncontrollable, thunderous chariot, which mirrors the pulsating rhythms of life within The Twenty-First Century.

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309079
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novelists in the New Millennium written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and introduces a range of key themes in contemporary literature, raising questions about genre, history, postmodernism, celebrity culture and form.